About This Blog

This blog is dedicated to the Sonnet, a type of rhymed, metered poetry in fourteen lines (and usually 140 syllables) popularized in the 14th century by Francesco Petrarca and probably best known in English in the works of William Shakespeare and the Romantic poets of the nineteenth century. To this end, you will find three distinct types of posts on this blog, conveniently divided by the labels at the top of the front page: analysis of the sonnet form and what it means; analysis of specific sonnets, either from the works of early poets or previously written by me; and new sonnets written by me.