sonnet
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When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
Currently, bookmakers have installed Sweden at the top of the table, with their delightfully bonkers sauna sonnet, Bara Bada Bastu.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
Whether the job was to jump on a stolen velocipede, win over a band of pirates, visibilize invisible ink, pen a sonnet, or don a disguise, Simon Harley-Dickinson was the man for it.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing sonnet
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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