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.
Natur und Kunst sie scheinen sich zu fliehen
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never again would birds' song be the same
Robert Frost
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On his blindness
John Milton
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Correspondences
Charles Baudelaire
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Cross of Snow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Astrophel and Stella III
Sir Philip Sidney
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Elegy for Sir William Dyer
Lady Catherine Dyer
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If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd
John Keats
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How many bards gild the lapses of time
John Keats
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On receiving a crown of ivy from John Keats
Leigh Hunt
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As kingfishers catch fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Michael Drayton
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L’arbor gentil che forte amai molt’anni
Francesco Petrarca
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Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats
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Lucifer in Starlight
George Meredith
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Modern Love XXX
George Meredith
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A Sonnet is a moment's monument
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick
William Beckford
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room
William Wordsworth
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Das I. Sonett
Rainer Marie Rilke
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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Rest
Christina Rossetti
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A Silken Tent
Robert Frost
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Soleasi nel mio cor star bella et viva
Francesco Petrarca
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Sonnet XV
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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The Sonnet (III)
John Addington Symonds
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Sonnet Machine
The Sonneteer
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Spinoza
Jorge Luis Borges
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Amoretti LXXV
Edmund Spenser
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These strewn thoughts, by the mountain pathway sprung
George Santayana
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El Sueño
Jorge Luis Borges
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Time Does Not Bring Relief
Edna St Vincent Millay
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth
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To Her Young Friend
Caroline Symmons
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