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Article: It's a sonnet (not sestina).(Brief Article)
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Did you know that Shakespeare's 115th sonnet contains a hidden message? When the poem is formatted with the appropriate font and character spacing, as shown below, the underlined letters spell IT'S A SONNET BY W.S. The second sonnet is an anagram of Shakespeare's, and contains its own similarly-arranged message.
THOSE LINES THAT I BEFORE HAVE WRIT DO LIE,
EVEN THOSE THAT SAID I COULD NOT LOVE YOU DEARER.
YET THEN MY JUDGMENT KNEW NO REASON WHY
MY MOST FULL FLAME SHOULD AFTERWARDS BURN CLEARER.
BUT RECKONING TIME, WHOSE MILLIONED ACCIDENTS
REEP IN 'TWIXT VOWS, AND CHANGE DECREES OF KINGS,
TAN SACRED BEAUTY, BLUNT THE SHARP'ST INTENTS,
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