| Imagine writing a book about the Lord's Prayer, or the Ave Maria, or one of Shakespeare's sonnets. |
| He wanted to speak beautiful words, whispering sonnets of his own design into her ear. |
| The iambic pentameter of Shakespeare's sonnets mimics the beat of the human heart. |
| While most sonnets conform to the usual rules of prosody, with their decasyllables and 14 rhymed lines, there are exceptions throughout the set. |
| Ostensibly, the title designates the thematic qualities of the sonnets, but it also announces their formal qualities as well. |
| I wrote poems, sonnets in blank verse and long, narrative poems about people I knew, descriptive pieces. |
