Category: Irregular sonnet

A sonnet form that has one or more features of a sonnet but doesn’t conform to any of our other named sonnet types. Sonnet features might include 14-line poems titled “Sonnet” or 14-line poems comprised of rhyming couplets.

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Poems assigned to this category

Total poems: 37
Poem title Poet(s) Date Periodical id #
Sonnet 1820-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8432
Sonnet 1820-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8430
Sonnet Anster, John 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8524
“Oh! who would think, in cheerless solitude” Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8788
Sonnet Moxon, Edward 1830 The Keepsake 3098
Sonnets Bethune, Alexander 1838-03-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 3527
The Evening Before the Battle 1840-10-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 5224
I.—(Exoteric) Crosland, Newton 1850 The Keepsake 5677
Sonnet to Lord Denman. Retiring from the Chief Justiceship of England Talfourd, Thomas Noon 1850-04-13 Household Words 1041
The Revenge of Aesop. Imitated from Phaedrus Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 1850-06-15 Household Words 1093
The Summer Sabbath Campbell, (Robert) Calder 1850-06-15 Household Words 1091
Resurrection Turner, Charles Tennyson 1860-06 Macmillan’s Magazine 13951
A Passage in a Life 1860-12 The Cornhill Magazine 11951
How I Read Petrarch Marzials, Theo 1870-03-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7243
Sonnet Wood, Ellen 1870-05-01 Good Words 2019
In Late Autumn Conway, Charles Denys 1870-06 The Cornhill Magazine 12103
Satis Whitcher, John 1871-07 The Dark Blue 184
“Thou, too, art great among Germania’s towns” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-10 The Dark Blue 16105
A Conquest Pollock, Walter Herries 1871-11 The Dark Blue 608
“Who’s here? a strange, old-fangled German Herr” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-11 The Dark Blue 16112
Weary Waddington, Samuel 1871-12 The Dark Blue 614
The Torrent C. H. W. (poet; Once a Week), Williams, Charles H. 1880-02-21 Once a Week 13761
Trouble. A Sonnet Williams, Charles H., C. H. W. (poet; Once a Week) 1880-04-17 Once a Week 13769
Rest Wilson, Helen K. 1880-08-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7412
“Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges” Tennyson, Alfred 1885-01 The Nineteenth Century 8203
Sonnet. To the Unknown Sculptor of the Apollo Anderson, Alexander 1890 Good Words 4091
To Richard Harrison, Green Bank Faber, Frederick William 1890-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8397
Sonnet Maunsell, W. Pryce 1890-07-26 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 13151
St. Antony of Coma Paton, Joseph Noël 1891-12 Victorian Magazine 1518
Flowers of Fire de Heredia, Jose Maria 1894-10 The Yellow Book 782
Degenerate? Horton, Robert Forman 1900 Good Words 15009
Is it Degenerate? Horton, Robert Forman 1900 Good Words 15010
Inspiration Stuart, Anita 1900-01-13 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12430
A Transformation Woodward, William 1900-02-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12433
Sunset Gallagher, William Joseph 1900-04-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12445
I. The Earth Sackville, Margaret 1900-12 The Argosy 17199
II. The Sky Sackville, Margaret 1900-12 The Argosy 17200