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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Yolanda often read poems addressed to lovers, sonnets set in bedrooms, and she knew her mother did not believe in sex for girls.†
Chpt 1.3
- I was in my nightgown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet.†
Chpt 1.5
- But that's just what I did, I went back and worked on my sonnet.†
Chpt 1.5
- The next day Rudy didn't turn in his sonnet.†
Chpt 1.5
- Rudy could have until Monday to turn in his sonnet.†
Chpt 1.5
- Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- He must have realized from his having had to explain to me so many references in his sonnet that I didn't know, as he put it, worth shit.†
Chpt 1.5
Definition:
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(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeeditor's notes: As an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.