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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/mad-sonnet",
 "title": "Mad Sonnet",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 36,
 "container": "Part II",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/bookofjade00gautiala"
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   "https://archive.org/details/bookofjade00gautiala",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_overland-monthly-and-out-west-magazine_1901-01_37_1"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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  [
   {
    "text": "Lo, in the night I cry out, in the night,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "God! and my voice shall howl into the sky!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am weary of seeing shapeless things that fly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And flap into my face in their vile flight;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I am weary of dead things that crowd into my sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am weary of hearing horrible corpses that cry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God! I am weary of that lidless Eye",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That comes and stares at me, O God of light!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "All, all the world is become a dead blur,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God! God! and I, stricken with hideous blight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crouch in the black corners, and I dare not stir.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I am aweary of my evil plight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If thou art not a dead corpse in thy sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Send thou down Death into my loathed sty!",
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   }
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