sonnet

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Recent Examples of sonnet This is the kind of show where deep, lasting soul-filling love is signified by the sharing of a single Shakespeare sonnet. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025 At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation. Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025 Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025 The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sonnet
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Noun
  • Hornung has always loved reading poetry and writing poems.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One of the earliest poetic works that collectively shaped us is the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In between, the camera flashed to the audience and caught Sarah Paulson, Colin Farrell, Jessica Williams, and Michael Urie dancing and singing along to the lyrics.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The title track opens the affair by lurching and creeping forward for ten minutes with odd, off-putting lyrics.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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