This is a poem of fourteen lines with a regular rhythm and rhyming pattern. Two well known types of sonnet are the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet and the Shakespearian sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet has two parts, the first of eight lines and the second...

The term "sonnet" derives from the Provençal word "sonet" and the Italian word "sonetto," both meaning "little song." By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure....

The Northborough Sonnets are so named because they were written in the troubled years John Clare spent at Northborough between 1832 and 1837, by which time he had fallen into pitiful mental disrepair and agreed to have enlightened treatment by a Doctor Matthew...

Seven poets wrote the following sonnet crown in a correspondence over email that lasted several months. As we discussed publication, we decided that to identify who wrote which portion would counter the collaborative nature of our project (although an enterprising reader might...

NEW YORK FASHION By Sonnet Stanfill Victoria and Albert Museum, 128 pages, $55 Suffering for fashion is now as obsolete as some of New York City’s corporate fashion houses. In New York Fashion, the companion volume for an upcoming exhibit at the Victoria...

Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the "concrete poetry" movement, has died. She was 86.Solt died June 21 in Santa Clarita after a stroke, her family said.Her most popular work,...

Describes the modern Sonnet and its distinguishing characteristics. References Modern Love by George Meredith and If We Must Die by Claude McKay.

A look at how the form and structure of sonnets portray different moods, feelings or ideas, with examples from William Shakespeare and Christina Georgina Rossetti.