At 14 lines in iambic pentameters, the sonnet is slightly too long to be considered as a stanza, although it is very like the stanza from Keats examined last week (the shorter lines of the Pushkin ...

you may be pushing it comparing the best of rap to sonnets: the purpose of the two things is so different that any comparison is surely moot. but i am prepared to say that it is certainly MUCH harder ...

This is one of the most commonly known, but among the most misunderstood and most misinterpreted of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Commensurate with the common misinterpretation is what is equally always ...