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  2. Sonnet 130 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs of courtly love and in courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as Petrarch.

  3. Sonnet 135 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 135 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.Nominally, it follows the rhyme scheme of ...

  4. Sonnet 33 - Wikipedia

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    Schwartzberg believes that there is a pun on the word sun which, when replaced with son, provides the poem a tone of grievous loss. "Even so my sun one early morn did shine" (9) may be in reference to the brevity of Shakespeare's own son; "one early morn" being the phrase that captures this notion.

  5. Sonnet 76 - Wikipedia

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    The poem answers its own questions by pointing out that his best work is inspired by fidelity to the subject of the poems. [ 3 ] The sonnet seems to be sincerely self-denigrating about the poet's lack of variety, and lack of incorporating the latest fashions, but at the same time there is a sense that the self-effacing pose doesn't ring true.

  6. Sonnet 34 - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 is included in what is referred to as the Fair Youth sequence, and it is the second of a briefer sequence (Sonnet 33 through Sonnet 36) concerned with a betrayal of the poet committed by the young man, who is addressed as a personification of the sun.

  7. Sonnet 148 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 148 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of ...

  8. Sonnet 60 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 60 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the form's typical rhyme, abab cdcd efef gg and is written a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  9. Sonnet 97 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 97 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. It is the first of three sonnets describing a separation between the speaker and the beloved.