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 ...

The sonnet was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, a Sicilian, and popularized by poet Francesco Petrarca (see Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...

If red, red roses aren't your thing, don't lose heart. It's still possible to write a sonnet for Valentine's Day. Ideally, you'd take your time, read up on Shakespeare, read some Elizabeth Barrett ...

Next year, 2014, marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Among the myriad events to mark the occasion is a sonnet-writing contest by the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater. The ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The contest accepts entries from the following age groups: (1) middle ...

to see that sonnets are all right this way. All you need is a little piece of rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter to help you not feel the need to break into a scream and it will be easier than a piece ...

Our assignment last week in my poetry class was to write a sonnet–English or Italian, our choice. But when it comes to sonnets, that, in many ways, is where the freedom seems to end. You can’t write ...

They say that the only thing worse than a man who writes poetry is one who shows it to others. Oh dear, dare I? One of my secret pleasures (well, it was a secret from most people up until now) is ...

The new large language model from Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet has is already showing signs of significant advancements in AI writing, particularly excelling in generating natural-sounding prose, ...