Sonnets

A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. The term derives from the Italian word sonetto (, from the Latin word sonus, ). Originating in 13th-century Sicily, the sonnet was in time taken up in many European-language areas, mainly to express romantic love at first, although eventually any subject was considered acceptable. Many formal variations were also introduced, including abandonment of the quatorzain limit – and even of rhyme altogether in modern times.

collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality

"Ozymandias" ( ) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.

poem collection by Rainer Maria Rilke

Emma Lazarus poem

collection of sonnets by E. B. Browning

thumb|A reading in French of Voyelles "Voyelles" or "Vowels" is a sonnet in alexandrines by Arthur Rimbaud, written in 1871 but first published in 1883. Its theme is the different characters of the vowels, which it associates with those of colours. It has become one of the most studied poems in the French language, provoking very diverse interpretations.

series of Polish sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz

sonnet cycle by France Prešeren

collection of poems

poem by John Milton (1608–1674)

painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

book by Pablo Neruda

sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in October 1816

German poem, in: Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1918)

1940 song cycle by Benjamin Britten