Possible Clues:

• Sent off over starting outburst and named by the linesman
• See 2-Down
• Therefore, at the beginning of November, cast read poetically
• The poem was sent on
• Octet + sestet
• Verve song about Shakespearean verse?
• Boy needs practice session to produce poetry
• Fourteen-lined verse
• Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" e.g
• "Little song" form