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The Demi-Sonnet is a new form invented in 2009 by American poet Erin Murphy, whose fourth book of poetry,Word Problems, is a collection of demi-sonnets. The structure consists of seven lines (half a Sonnet) of varying length that express a concise memorable truth with an internal rhyme or slant rhyme in the last line.

More background can be found in the following link: http://betterviewofthemoon.blogspot.com/2020/01/poem366-assisted-living-by-erin-...

More examples by the form's creator can be found in the following link: http://www.summersetreview.org/17fall/murphy.html . Some of her "slant rhymes" are very difficult to distinguish, so we will be just as loose here.

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Dave
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