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

Although an occasional narrative experiment might disrupt the format, what makes “Law & Order” special is precisely the fact that it has one, like a sonnet, a sestina, or an ottava rima.

From Los Angeles Times

Desperate, he starts churning out sonnets, “moved by the Nerudian hope of managing to write something so extraordinarily persuasive that Carla could not go on rejecting him.”

From New York Times