Okay, so if Cummings mostly wrote sonnets, but is mostly known for his more experimental work, then those few sonnets of his which are also widely known are exceptions (to the aforementioned fact), which suggests that those few sonnets may be exceptional. What I posted yesterday, and also what I posted on Monday, are, in fact, widely known, as is the piece I'm posting today :) This one is the last sonnet in the 9-sonnet cycle "Sonnets---Realities" in Cummings' 1925 "& (AND)", and its lines are not the usual (for sonnets) pentameter, but mostly tetrameter. Note also the rhyme scheme (and also the exhilarating use of alliteration, and also the British spelling):
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From Sonnets---Realities
By E.E. Cummings
IX
in making Marjorie god hurried
a boy's body on unsuspicious
legs of girl. his left hand quarried
the quartzlike face. his right slapped
the amusing big vital vicious
vegetable of her mouth.
Upon the whole he suddenly clapped
a tiny sunset of vermouth
-colour. Hair. he put between
her lips a moist mistake, whose fragrance hurls
me into tears,as the dusty new-
ness of her obsolete gaze begins to. lean....
a little against me, when for two
dollars i fill her hips with boys and girls
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