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Lines for a child rising ten (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sonnet

'lines' is the definition.
(poem of 14 lines)

'child rising ten' is the wordplay.
'child' becomes 'son' (male child).
'rising' says the letters should be written in reverse (in a down clue, letters go up).
'ten' backwards is 'net'.
'son'+'net'='SONNET'

'for a' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for sonnet that I've seen before include "14-line poem" , "Sent on the verse form" , "Verse form of 14 lines" , "Tonnes (anag.)" , "Form of poem" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News and The Globe and Mail.
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