Elizabethan sonnet

"If you call three hundred pages on the evolution of the Elizabethan sonnet an accident."

Whereupon she lost her temper and, seizing the unfortunate work upon the Elizabethan sonnet, whizzed it across the room.

Elizabethan Sonnets.

This literature is often attributed to the Elizabethan Age and known as Elizabethan sonnets.

It is an archetypal Elizabethan sonnet, demonstrative of the prosodic creativity for which Nemerov is famous.

Though the rhyme scheme of the Elizabethan Sonnet form is not Shakespeare's invention, he uses this also to shape the reader's interpretation and the speaker's delivery.

"When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats.

But ... the appeal of the Restoration and Augustan satires, of the Elizabethan sonnets, and of Myers's 'St Paul' is hardly to the ordinary boy.

"The difference between Shakespeare's and other great Elizabethan sonnet sequences lies in the degree and complexity of his main character's ambiguity, as well as in the skill with which this complexity is managed.

While not sonnets, these poems do trace their ancestry from the Elizabethan sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare to the 20th century, where the tradition has been brought forward most notably by John Berryman, in his "Dream Songs."

As for the poem, it's going okay, but I can't seem to settle on the appropriate verse form, and have been experimenting with the Petrarchan sonnet, the Elizabethan sonnet, rhyming couplets, Alexandrines, haikus and blank verse, and may well end up writing a limerick.