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A sonnet is a form of lyric poem made popular by poets such as William Shakespeare. Sonnets consist of 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes, but there is more to a sonnet. What is sonnet in poetry (complete definition)?
A Caged Bird Will Sing
A CAGED BIRD WILL SING
What beauty is heard when a caged bird sings
In its own; sad vanity to be heard
Such; in its own sorrow, sadness it brings
This being; the plight of a lonesome bird
Sending...
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Categories:
bird, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
I love thee for what thou artLet world dole out to thee all undue blame,
To me thy eyes filled with fairness shall shine,
Let tongues parrot what eyes may at fault frame,
Let thy praise lone spread to keen ears of mine.
Let modest...
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Categories:
love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
O Monsoon RainsYou rise from the depths of south-west to bless
Us in a heist, an invading army,
In a month to conquest all the country,
Ever welcome in all its loveliness.
Ye pour or pause to lay anchor in...
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Categories:
rain,
Form: Sonnet
You Were Always on My MindI lay beside your softness in the night,
Felt warmth in your fingers and open eyes.
Then you trusted me, as I held you tight,
Our love, attested by unguarded sighs.
Such love and...
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Categories:
death, love,
Form: Sonnet
When We Idolized
~ A Sonnet in Iambic Tetrameter ~
Remember when we idolized
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe
They seemed so great back in the day
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Categories:
celebrity, hero, loss, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Becoming the flameFlawed perception contours beliefs we hold,
which we then affirm as the truth we own
but as ego thins out, as was foretold,
presence reclaims love, light and bliss full blown.
Breath by breath the universe offers clues,
which we...
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Categories:
joy, light, love, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The Girl I'm Infatuated WithThe Girl I'm Infatuated With
The girl I am infatuated with,
Tells her friends, she ignores my advances.
This flirtatious game she finds dismissive
Still, I stay the course and remain focused.
When I approach or pass her by, she...
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Categories:
emotions, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Sins ‘Tis through God’s grace we're able to withstand
inane commissions of the human mind.
We question why but never understand
then search for answers that we’ll never find.
We scan our thoughts where evil bides within
and wonder...
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Categories:
holocaust, irony, philosophy, prejudice,
Form: Sonnet
Love's SonnetLove’s Sonnet
Tattered womb, shred by sharp blades of regret,
Weighed down by rough millstones, dark as shame,
Pale dawn stumbles from midnight to forget -
Stinging acids scar through showers of blame.
A whisper of consolation murmurs,
Infused with the...
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Categories:
love,
Form: Sonnet
slow motion sonnetThe fingernail left of the sun is being slowly consumed
Into hate
Blinded by a sunblissed day, stay away
Running, run run run run run
Walk stay still
Like a flower, wilting, slowly dying
Not no bee, flying, starting to live
Lost,...
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Categories:
10th grade,
Form: Sonnet
''What Beauty Is To The Geometrist'' ReprisedWhat beauty is (to the geometrist),
is the shape of the Golden Ratio!
Beauty is courage, the defiant fist
of a protector fear can't overthrow.
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Categories:
beauty, literature, love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
The Decadence of Nature“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, environment, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A Sonnet for the Empress
In shadows draped, my night empress does glide,
Amidst the moonlit meadow’s misty sigh,
Her raven locks, a midnight river’s tide,
Flow ‘neath the moonbeam’s haunting silver sky.
Her eyes, orbs of obsidian’s deep spell,
Entrap all who meet her...
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Categories:
beauty, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Sonnet
Why I became a poetWhen the sable ink flirted with the quill
How my muse blushed and blotted with a thrill
Upon parchment that submitted at will
To the words that began to overspill
At school I discovered 'tram' rhymed with 'scram'
And...
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Categories:
poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Lost PortraitsI painted portraits of you in my heart
till' dark clouds allowed pouring rain to fall
washed away paintings hung that fell apart
to leave my heart's chamber an empty hall
my love for you held portraits that I...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sonnet Poems
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