Traditional Sonnets for Analysis

• “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth
• “Death, be not proud” (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne
• “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats
• “Mowing” by Robert Frost
• “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
• “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
• “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” by John Keats
• “The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “Putting in the Seed” by Robert Frost
• “Range-finding” by Robert Frost
• “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
• “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks
• “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” by John Milton
• “The world is too much with us; late and soon” by William Wordsworth