Laurel · Poems by form and metre

English sonnets (the Shakespearean sonnet)

Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG: three quatrains and a closing couplet. Shakespeare's form, and Surrey's before him. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.

293 poems on Laurel

  1. Sonnet CXLI William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  2. Sonnet CXLIX William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  3. Sonnet CXLVIII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  4. Sonnet CXXXVI William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  5. Sonnet CXXXVII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  6. Sonnet LXXIII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  7. Sonnet LXXXVII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  8. Sonnet XC William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  9. Sonnet XCII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  10. Sonnet XCVIII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  11. Sonnet XLIII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  12. Sonnet XLVII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  13. Or the Poet in the Clouds Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  14. My Days Isaac Rosenberg, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  15. The Spirit of Shakespeare George Meredith, Poems, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  16. VI Bluebeard Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  17. My Mother II Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  18. The Tired Worker Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  19. Wild May Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  20. Futility Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  21. On the Road Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  22. The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  23. On a Primitive Canoe Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  24. The Night Fire Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  25. I Shall Return Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  26. Africa Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  27. If We Must Die Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  28. America Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  29. The Third Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  30. Sonnet Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  31. To His Absent Diana Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  32. Sonnets from the Manuscript Edition, Not Found in That of 1594 Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  33. The Eighth Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  34. The Fourth Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  35. The Sixth Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  36. The First Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  37. The Fifth Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  38. The Second Decade Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  39. Countess of Pembroke Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  40. To the Lady Rich Samuel Daniel, Delia, with Constable's Diana · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  41. Love Rupert Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  42. The Busy Heart Rupert Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  43. Winter John Clare, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  44. Sonnet XIII Alan Seeger, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  45. Martha Washington Sidney Lanier, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  46. In Absence Sidney Lanier, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  47. Sonnet: Written at the Age of Thirteen Felicia Hemans, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  48. Francisco Manuel: On Ascending a Hill Leading to a Convent Felicia Hemans, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  49. Sonnet: Written at the Age of Thirteen Felicia Hemans, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  50. El Conde Juan De Tarsis Felicia Hemans, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  51. Evening Amongst the Alps Felicia Hemans, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  52. By T. Park Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  53. On Entering Switzerland William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  54. Poems Sir Richard Fanshawe · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  55. Sonnet Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  56. Sonnet Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  57. Subject Continued Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  58. To May, in the Year 1783 Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  59. Written in the Spring 1785 on the Death of the Poet Laureat Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  60. At Dover, 1786 William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  61. Dover Cliffs William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  62. From the Italian of Filacaja Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  63. Sonnet Lxxxvii Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  64. At Malvern William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  65. December 1790 Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  66. Then and Now John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  67. Translation Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  68. In Age William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  69. Distant View of England from the Sea William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  70. The Bells, Ostend William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  71. Approach of Summer William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  72. Equality John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  73. On Reading a Description of Pope's Gardens at Twickenham Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  74. Petrarch to Vaucluse Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  75. Supposed to Have Been Addressed by a Female Lunatic to a Lady Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  76. Written in the Rainy Summer of 1789 Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  77. Written on Rising Ground Near Lichfield Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  78. Invitation to a Friend Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  79. The Rhine William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  80. The Rose William Browne, of Tavistock, Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  81. Written Many Years After the Foregoing Sonnets William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  82. Associations William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  83. Retrospection William Lisle Bowles, The Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  84. Visions Nicholas Breton, Pastoral Poems and Selected Poetry · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  85. Translated from the French of M. Desbarreaux Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  86. The Empty Nest William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · ABABCDCDEFEFGG
  87. Unsolved John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems · ABABCDCDEFEFGG

The first 87 of 293 poems, best-known poets first. The rest are reachable through their poets.

Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.