🎭 Culture Oct 14, 2026 · David Lehman

At the Lonesome Bijou

The American Scholar
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Is the sonnet making a comeback? I’d like to think so, and I’m not the only one. Ken Gordon’s online publication The Sonneteer is making a strong case for the venerable form. And this month’s Next Line, Please prompt—to write a sonnet beginning with a line adapted from Shakespeare—testifies to the attractions of the 14-line poem as well as to the ability of our NLP all-stars. The three lines I tossed out as possible openers are these:

Take all I love, from dolls to jewels to guns,
When I wink,

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