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
At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
Ashmole was a strong supporter of the monarchy, and the lines added to the sonnet could be read as an appeal towards religious and political loyalty.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
I was in my nightgown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet.
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
Stratford-upon-Avon born playwright Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to Wriothesley, who some think was the "fair youth" to whom many of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
It was the sonnets that praised a lady’s fair lips and eyes that made Gertrude wistful.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"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.
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
Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
From The Certain Hour 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
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
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
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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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