Thanks for the nomination, but if I had wanted to run a challenge, I would simply have run one. I would never presume to attempt to step into the middle of someone else's area of interest. Tjames, if you are not capable of judging a challenge yourself, you could do one of several things, none of which would include simply pushing it off onto someone else. You could simply not propose a new challenge. You could request that someone else take over due to some emergency situation. You could state that the person that won the previous challenge introduce the next challenge. I guess you are stuck with this one unless you leave it up to the members to vote...like every other contest in Renderosity! May I suggest that you publish your criteria for judging poems in some coherent form in the library so that in the future 'judges' can avail themselves of it. Meanwhile, for those members who might be interested in tjames challenge, and need more information, here is a list of websites: THE SONNET: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sonnet.htm http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/Forum27/HTML/000044.html http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/form.html http://mimi.essortment.com/sonnetlyricwha_rufa.htm http://www.ils.unc.edu/~beaud/inls181/history.htmhttp://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sonnet.htm http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/Forum27/HTML/000044.html http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/form.html http://mimi.essortment.com/sonnetlyricwha_rufa.htm http://www.ils.unc.edu/~beaud/inls181/history.html METER http://nv.essortment.com/metricalfoot_rxjm.htm http://litera1no4.tripod.com/meter_frame.html http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/axf.html http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~greebie/Criticism/metre.html GENERAL INFORMATION ON POETRY http://www.shadowpoetry.com/handbook/a.html glossary http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/uc/s.cassavant/Poetry.html good short reference http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html

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