How to Write a Sonnet

You too can master Shakespeare’s favourite form

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The sonnet, when done right, is easy to read and oh so musical (sonnet after all means song). It is not, however, easy to write a sonnet. Shakespeare was the master of this form, but his style of sonnet, known as the Shakespearean sonnet or the English sonnet, is only one of many types of sonnet.