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Poetry and the Potential Mood: The Counterfactual Form of Ben Jonson’s “To Fine Lady Would-Be”

Whatever Ben Jonson’s epigram ‘‘To Fine Lady Would-Be’’ is, we know that it is not a sonnet. As far as knowledge goes, this piece of it is rather mundane. It is easy to come by: we need only count the lines (there are twelve). The couplets that organize these lines would seem to bar even the relevance of the sonnet form; they turn on the pointed closure characteristic of the epigram’s famed sal: