sonnet
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After cradling it the entire way home like a Faberge calf, I felt like writing a sonnet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The confines of a structure make your brain work in a different way: How do I get this idea across in a sonnet or a villanelle?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
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
Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
There are many places where “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,” from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, elicits a nod of recognition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
He consumed everything from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to Shakespearean sonnets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Prof Smith said: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds is now one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, but it doesn't seem to have been very popular in his own time."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Boring, that is, until we came to the sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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 Andrew Lang
"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 James Branch Cabell
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 Marie Manning
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 William Shakespeare
Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
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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