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sonnets

noun

plural of sonnet

as in poems

a composition made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern He wrote gushy sonnets to his girlfriend when he was away at camp.

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Recent Examples of sonnets In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code. — Anshul Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026 Recently reissued by original label Rough Trade Records, Songs to Remember epitomizes the group’s attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement as stately and cohesive as a book of sonnets. — Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2026 Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code. — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 The character is speaking sonnets and doing ‘Ozymandias’ as well. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2026 Ever wanted to dive into Shakespeare's sonnets or explore cinema analysis? — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 11 Jan. 2026

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Throughout the album, mary in the junkyard shift constantly, moving from crumbling atmospheric experiments to cloudy Pacific Northwest indie rock to the kind of straightforward classical guitar poems of Leonard Cohen’s early albums.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 July 2026
In poems bursting with emotion and humor, Martino’s debut collection is just stunning.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 7 July 2026

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When Branch wiped her Instagram profile and began posting cryptic photos using lyrics from The Spirit Room, everyone freaked out.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
In the early days of the war, Union troops from Boston had borrowed the familiar melody of a religious camp meeting song and added new lyrics lionizing John Brown, the leader of the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).

— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026

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