English sonnet

Among students and scholars of Persian literature, she was recognized for her command — and renovation — of the ghaza l, a poetic form that is often compared with an English sonnet.

There is none of the intricate scheming, the subtle inter-weaving of tremulous tones which make D. G. Rossetti's sonnets the most musical of English sonnets.

It is, of course, the English sonnet which Gascoigne thus describes.

Some of the best English sonnets have been written by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Mrs. Browning.

These three head the group and contain the best work, after Shakespere and Spenser and Sidney, in the English sonnet of the time.