This poem appears to have been the first attempt that Burns made at sonnet writing. The sonnet, popularised in English by Shakespeare, is a fourteen-line poem. The subject matter is the verse form ...

Instead the poet can use ‘run on lines’ (or enjambment). The Trick by Imtiaz Dharker is an example of a modern sonnet that uses some ‘run on lines’. Sometimes the only way to spot a modern ...