Demonstrations - sonnet structures

Sonnets have a very regular and consistent structure across instances of the form; but their interest is not in this regularity so much as in the variations. Every sonnet is also, as an emotional expression, subject to the rhythms and patterns of natural language.

Wendell Piez, 2014. Images generating from LMNL using Luminescent.

Natur und Kunst sie scheinen sich zu fliehen

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never again would birds' song be the same

Robert Frost

On his blindness

John Milton

Correspondences

Charles Baudelaire

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Cross of Snow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Astrophel and Stella III

Sir Philip Sidney

Elegy for Sir William Dyer

Lady Catherine Dyer

If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd

John Keats

How many bards gild the lapses of time

John Keats

On receiving a crown of ivy from John Keats

Leigh Hunt

As kingfishers catch fire

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part

Michael Drayton

L’arbor gentil che forte amai molt’anni

Francesco Petrarca

Leda and the Swan

William Butler Yeats

Lucifer in Starlight

George Meredith

Modern Love XXX

George Meredith

A Sonnet is a moment's monument

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick

William Beckford

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room

William Wordsworth

Das I. Sonett

Rainer Marie Rilke

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son

Sir Walter Raleigh

Rest

Christina Rossetti

A Silken Tent

Robert Frost

Soleasi nel mio cor star bella et viva

Francesco Petrarca

Sonnet XV

Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Sonnet (III)

John Addington Symonds

Sonnet Machine

The Sonneteer

Spinoza

Jorge Luis Borges

Amoretti LXXV

Edmund Spenser

These strewn thoughts, by the mountain pathway sprung

George Santayana

El Sueño

Jorge Luis Borges

Time Does Not Bring Relief

Edna St Vincent Millay

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

William Wordsworth

To Her Young Friend

Caroline Symmons