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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After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones.
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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.
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Alfred Soto,
Pitchfork,
11 Apr. 2026
In the Village Voice, where the Consumer Guide became one of the fabled alt-weekly’s go-to features from the ’70s through the ’90s, Christgau wrote like a possessed fan who breathed insight, making every capsule sound like a psychedelic sonnet.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
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Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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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
In the Village Voice, where the Consumer Guide became one of the fabled alt-weekly’s go-to features from the ’70s through the ’90s, Christgau wrote like a possessed fan who breathed insight, making every capsule sound like a psychedelic sonnet.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
—
Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Noun
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Spiro borrows part of that message from the famous poet Nikki Giovanni, who recorded her poem of that same name as a song in 1975 with producer Arif Mardin, making for the only sample or interpolation on the album.
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Helena Bonham Carter, there’s a TikTok of her reading a Mary Oliver poem.
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The production was built entirely with AI tools, with Madhvani writing the multilingual lyrics alongside co-creators and composing the music through Suno, a leading AI music generation platform.
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Swift has a massive global platform, and a tendency to pull back the curtain on her personal life in song lyrics and the occasional documentary.
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