A sonnet is a specific type of poem ... and this lesser-known poem is one example. Shakespeare used allegory and elegy to describe complex themes, but most importantly, he allowed the reader ...

Instead the poet can use ‘run on lines’ (or enjambment). The Trick by Imtiaz Dharker is an example of a modern sonnet that uses some ‘run on lines’. Sometimes the only way to spot a modern ...

This poem appears to have been the first attempt that Burns made at sonnet writing. The sonnet, popularised in English by Shakespeare, is a fourteen-line poem. The subject matter is the verse form ...