Sonnets - William Shakespeare

Sonnets are rhyming poems of 14 lines, and with 10 syllables per line.  Shakespeare wrote a series of 154, mostly on the theme of love.

These works are around 400 years old, so you may not recognise the English he uses! However, you can read a translation into modern English, and an analysis of the sonnet, by clicking on .

The poems are read by American speakers.

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