: a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
called also Shakespearean sonnet
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Daron Acemoglu, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
While social media is rife with examples of LLMs responding in a Shakespearean sonnet or a poem in the style of Dr. Seuss, this format flexibility didn’t extend to Woebot’s style.
—Casey Sackett, IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024
In less than a minute, the program had created in full a rhyming Shakespearean sonnet.
—Seth Perlow, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
Fancy a tribute to the Blue Line in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet?
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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Noun
But this requires much more reliable AI models—not gimmicks such as large language models that can write Shakespearean sonnets.
—Daron Acemoglu, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
While social media is rife with examples of LLMs responding in a Shakespearean sonnet or a poem in the style of Dr. Seuss, this format flexibility didn’t extend to Woebot’s style.
—Casey Sackett, IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024
In less than a minute, the program had created in full a rhyming Shakespearean sonnet.
—Seth Perlow, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
Fancy a tribute to the Blue Line in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet?
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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“English sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/English%20sonnet. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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