sonnets in English

noun
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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Most of the poems employ the forms of the sonnet , rhymed couplets, and ballad stanzas, and most were composed while Cullen was an undergraduate at New York University.
verb
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compose sonnets.
And in delightful tones sit sonneting : Who when they mention you in their sweet lays, May th' angler eccho your deserved praise.

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1. In The Sonnagrams (2009), Mohammad Anagrammatizes Shakespeare’s sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter

2. Commendatory Sonnets [The first of these sonnets was probably no more than a friendly address, not meant for publication

3. Edmund Spenser wrote his famous Amoretti sonnets to …

4. / 'Shall I turne Blabb?': Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Wroth's Sonnets

5. The Amoretti sonnets, however, reveal a lasting courtship resulting in marriage

6. They wrote sonnets for each other and were in regular contact until she died.

7. For example, to describe Shakespeare’s sonnets as having been written in iambic pentameter Acatalectic

8. Silem Mohammad is the author of several books of poetry, including Deer Head Nation (2003), A Thousand Devils (2004) Breathalyzer (2008), and The Front (2009).In The Sonnagrams (2009), Mohammad Anagrammatizes Shakespeare’s sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter

9. Evans (Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1996) as "Let no unkind [persons] kill no fair Beseechers." Structure

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11. A genius, and Ambidextrous, he could write sonnets with one hand and compose operas with the other

12. 10 The sonnets to the Friend, by contrast, elicit warmth in us by the warmth that they contain.

13. 16 Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.

14. The sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a famous English poetess of the19th century, are unique in their charm.

15. Song of the Bardds; Taffy’s Daffodils; Ballyskeagh Bridge; Snurlney; Dunmore Strand; Subconsence; The Giant’s Hive-way; Sonnets of Scrabo

16. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.

17. For the most part the later sonnets of celebration of the Friend impute no such extraordinary motives to the Poet.

18. With the Annexions of fair gems enrich'd, And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality

19. 16 Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.

20. Petrarchan (after the Italian poet Petrarch) Conceits figure heavily in sonnets, and contrast more conventional sensual imagery to describe the experience of love.

21. Irish poet Seamus Heaney published eight sonnets titled Clearances in 1987 as an elegaic tribute to his mother Margaret Kathleen Heaney, who died in 1984

22. ‘Clearances’ forms part of a series of 8 sonnets about Seamus Heaney’s relationship with his mother and the townland of Mossbawn where he spent his formative years

23. Steven May identifies strong and unconventional stylistic similarities between the sonnets attributed to the women and Soowthern's text in their use of Arhythmic meters, abbreviated forms of proper nouns and in their principles of riming.(22) These similarities are compounded by the status of all the separately attributed sonnets as full or partial translations from Desportes, in a larger male

24. A founder of a group of poets known as the Pléiade, he wrote sonnets, satires on literary conventions, and a manifesto Bellay - definition of Bellay …

25. Ignoring the revelations about God’s astounding capacity is like playing aimlessly and contentedly with wooden blocks featuring the letters of the alphabet, without realizing Shakespearean sonnets were created using that same alphabet.

26. His answer to the offensive production flows with anger, and is harsh even to Abusiveness. THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS, AND OTHER POEMS OF PETRARCH PETRARCH The palm for Abusiveness was, however, carried off by Nicholls and Jekyll

27. The Petrarchan Conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun

28. In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle explores perhaps the most enigmatic inscription in a book of poems ‘To the only Begetter of these ensuing sonnets’: so begins perhaps the most puzzling poetic dedication in all of English literature.

29. ‘The whole sequence ends with two sonnets Allegorizing the poet's love by means of fables about Cupid.’ ‘Williams often exalts the power of metaphor, and the cover of his new self-titled release - a photograph of him driving in a truck, ready to shout through a bullhorn - …

30. ''And, lo, behold these talents of their hair, With twisted metal amorously impleach'd, I have received from many a several fair, Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd, With the Annexions of fair gems enrich'd, And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.

31. ‘Don't let your lip curl at the Catchpenny title - the book contains much that would be of value to any writer.’ ‘Indeed, by this time I'd gone off his work in a big way, largely because of his sonnets, which I thought were atrocious and boring, somewhat Catchpenny.’

32. ‘Don't let your lip curl at the Catchpenny title - the book contains much that would be of value to any writer.’ ‘Indeed, by this time I'd gone off his work in a big way, largely because of his sonnets, which I thought were atrocious and boring, somewhat Catchpenny.’