![]() ![]() To view a Network Layout of each sonnet click here. Shakespeare constantly refers to beauty, time, summer, the heart, the eyes amongst others while his use of sweet stands out - 'sweet ornament', 'sweet odour', 'sweet respect', 'sweet thoughts', 'sweet virtue', 'sweet husband' and so on. Search for a word or phrase to highlight its occurence anywhere in the body of the sonnets. Click on any of the buttons to filter by theme. ![]() ![]() Click on a box to read the entire sonnet. Sonnets 1 - 126, sprinkled with the language of love, are addressed to a young man - the 'Fair Youth' & Sonnets 127 - 152 have been addressed to - 'The Dark Lady' - both identities still remain a mystery.Įach box below is a sonnet & each bar is a line of poetry. There are deviations from the sonnet form though - Sonnet 99 has 15 lines & Sonnet 126 is made of 7 couplets (the 7th added by the publisher). Each sonnet is made up of 14 lines - 3 quatrains of 4 lines each & a couplet. Are they the window to the life of the most revered figure in Literature ? Are they his works after all? Even if they were, was Shakespeare the best Sonneteer that ever lived? However divided opinions may be, the sonnets unquestionably have rightly taken their place amongst the great works of literature. Adored, criticized, oft quoted, oft misquoted - Shakespeare's sonnets have ![]()
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