Violet Ends
Hmm, I was just thinking about how close I've come to plagiarising Shakespeare on Hope's behalf... "These violet delights have violet ends." I mean we're only talking about an n/n gap here. Somehow though I feel like he would fully approve and likely get a kick out of it, especially given that I caught his linguistic shenanigans and latched onto them. I believe I've referenced the nature of this in this blog before but in this case the trickery is that "violet" must be said once as two syllables and once as three syllables in the same sentence in order for it to fit as a sonnet line, demonstrating, I believe, Shakespeare's mastery of his poetic style of choice.
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