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Apple aqua 223 Posted 8 years ago
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Can I write a Shakespearean sonnet in modern English?

So i've been sick for most of my current school week and never got to hear about how to write a sonnet. I researched and understand the rest but I am still not sure if I can write it in modern English could someone please give me an answer, thanks in advance.

  

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apple aqua 223 I am still not sure if I can write it in modern English Yes, of course you can. Shakespeare wrote sonnets in modern English, and many poets who came after him.

  • apple aqua 223 I am still not sure if I can write it in modern English Yes, of course you can.
  • Shakespeare wrote sonnets in modern English, and many poets who came after him.
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apple aqua 223 I am still not sure if I can write it in modern English

Yes, of course you can. Shakespeare wrote sonnets in modern English, and many poets who came after him.

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apple aqua 223I am still not sure if I can write it in modern English

Of course you can, and you will certainly not be the first.

A famous example is Edna St. Vincent Millay's Love is Not All.

CJ

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