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
It was a reference to a sonnet by Percy Bysse Shelley: Ozymandias, King of Kings.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
It was a poetic ending for the man who named his company after a 19th-century sonnet about arrogance, hubris and pride laid low.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024
The sonnet form allowed me to make my poems look and feel like real poetry without being as distant as some of the other British poetry I had read.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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