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.
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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.
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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.
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Anshul Gupta,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
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Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
The character is speaking sonnets and doing ‘Ozymandias’ as well.
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Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
5 Feb. 2026
Ever wanted to dive into Shakespeare's sonnets or explore cinema analysis?
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Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
11 Jan. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sonnets
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Some people like to write poems, other people like to perform music, other people like to run marathons.
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Fragments of email correspondence appear alongside bits of dialogue, histories of apocalyptic movements in Korea, and poems about the nature of time and the Bardo (the Tibetan Buddhist concept for the transitional period between death and rebirth).
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The musical, which has a book by Jeff Whitty with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, went on to play in Las Vegas, London's West End, and other locations worldwide.
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As the only standalone English track of the album, its lyrics speak of a situationship so suspended in uncertainty that Selines craftily matched it with the sonic sensation of floating into outer space.
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“Sonnets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnets. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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