sonnet

Example Sentences

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She kind of tried every form: There are sonnets, poems that are sort of like haiku, everything.

From Los Angeles Times

These bots can dazzle when they produce a topical sonnet, explain an advanced physics concept or generate an engaging lesson plan for teaching fifth-graders astronomy.

From Washington Post

Marilyn Hacker’s sonnet, an excerpt from a sequence, plays with negation: She records all the things she didn’t do in rhyme that surges with life, even when it concludes with regret.

From Washington Post

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