sonnet

Example Sentences

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Bard did get a little gooey at one point when asked to write a Shakespearean sonnet and responded seductively in one of the three drafts that it quickly created.

From Washington Times

When May asked it to write a specific kind of sonnet—he requested a form used by Italian poet Petrarch—the model, unfamiliar with that poetic setup, defaulted to the sonnet form preferred by Shakespeare.

From Scientific American

When I showed my friends the sonnet by ChatGPT, they called it “soulless and barren.”

From Washington Post

I was reading the plays, not the sonnets; but they sang like poetry all the same.

From New York Times

One of the most powerful poems in this collection, “Love in the Time of War,” is a series of 25 sonnets originally published in his 2008 collection, “Warhorses.”

From Washington Post