[s-b] [auto] JessicaCooper submits p86

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JessicaCooper has submitted a new proposal, p86.

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Proposal 86/0: Sonnets need iambs, please!
A Standard Proposal by JessicaCooper
Last modified on nweek 88, nday 5

I know not whence your definitions came,
Nor where you learned your literary stuff, 
But you malign the Bard of England's name 
By not researching sonnet form enough.

'Twas Petrarch who first wrote in sonnet style
And set its meter how it's always been:
Five iambs needs each line to stand the trial
Of what makes sonnets sonnet-like; and then

The rhyme scheme has a plethora of choice.
Shakespearean's the one in this par'digm,
For English has not what Petrarch enjoys:
All reg'lar romance language verbs can rhyme.

So let the definition read like this:{{
ABABCDCDEF
EFGG a sonnet's rhyme scheme is;
Five iambs do comprise each line by def,

And fourteen lines exact should sonnets get.}}
Where this rule now says just "sonnet" plain,
Let's make it say "Shakespearean sonnet,"
And where that latter term is now in play,

Expunge it from rule three-dash-nine-oh's text,
And that all sonnets are Shakespearean
The genechip section should instead reflect.
Thus updated, the form the rule'd be in:

{{2.C: Shakespearean Sonnet Proposals
A Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal is a proposal which is in Shakespearean sonnet form.  ABABCDCDEFEFGG a sonnet's rhyme scheme is; five iambs do comprise each line by def, and fourteen lines exact should sonnets get.  Whether the title of a Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal is included in the Shakespearean sonnet is up to the creator of the Shakespearean Sonnet proposal.  If a Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal passes, its creator is awarded 14 Genechips and the right to act very superior for one nweek.  If a Sonnet Proposal fails, its creator is awarded seven Genechips.  If the Shakespearean sonnet was identical to a Shakespearean Sonnet created in a previous proposal, no Genechips are awarded.}}
[[If that makes the proposal not in iambic pentameter, that kind of sucks, but the text really needs to be included for clarity's sake.]]

Good luck to you, aspiring sonnetteers;
I hope that you amend two cee in fear.

[[I know this is much too long to be a sonnet.  I tried, but there was no way to fit it all.]]

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