as in poem
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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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
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Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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Noun
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Surrounded by dancers, the Italian rapper Ghali read an antiwar poem by Gianni Rodari.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Martin had recently published three poems by a fellow named Lawrence Ferling.—
Gioia Woods,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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All of that is displayed in his lyrics.—
Rocio Munoz,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Armstrong also changed some of the band’s lyrics to reference topical issues.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnet. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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