noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
write
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A decade later, Gusmao will write a sonnet to his Mauser, a 1914 bolt-action rifle.
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Whereas the person who can write a sonnet Has got it made.
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I was writing sonnets myself, but that did not satisfy me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
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I was in my night-gown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet .
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If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance.
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The sonnets to the Friend, by contrast, elicit warmth in us by the warmth that they contain.
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The fourth section returns both to the closed form of the sonnet , and to the more subjective atmosphere of former days.
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The last point I would wish to make about this sonnet is one of rhythm and structure.
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Through the Blue Mountain College home page we can zip a personalized Shakespearean sonnet , 116, to a friend.