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
I would write a sonnet describing the petals, white and rose-colored, that fluttered to the ground, borne upon the warming breeze.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
When he first started experimenting with AI, tech reporter Sam Schechner used it to rewrite sonnets in the style of Snoop Dogg and debate about the nature of consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
No one is writing social media sonnets about eating a yellow squash over the kitchen sink while wearing their ex’s oversized T-shirt, still scented with a perfume they stopped wearing last fall.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
On Valentine's Day, Dame Judi read Sonnet 116, one of Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024
An occasional poet, he wooed her with sonnets, and they married in 1966.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner did not have the elegance of any of the sonnets we had read, nor did it have the soaring language of a poem by Shelley or Byron.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
He spoke 'and the numbers came'; he sonneted as easily as a living poet, in his Eton days, improvised Latin elegiacs and Greek hexameters.
From Ballads in Blue China by Lang, Andrew
"My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose" is altogether delightful, containing as it does a suggestion of the old formalities and courtly graces of the music of Lawes, whose songs Milton sonneted.
But there was other work than sonneting afoot that night, and shortly I set about it.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
But Chloe had intimated that her graceful fingers were engaged with the inkpot and her head with schemes for further sonneting.
From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie
Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears There is no certain princess that appears: You'll not be perjur'd; 'tis a hateful thing: Tush! none but minstrels like of sonneting.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch
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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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