Great little tool from bookrags. Use a drop-down list to construct your own sonnet, using lines from Shakespeare's corpus. This might be a good tool to ease students into constructing their own sonnets.
Congratulations! You just created a sonnet!
Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
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| To make some special instant special-blest | (undo) | Sonnet 52, Line 11 |
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| Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee | (undo) | Sonnet 4, Line 13 |
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| To make of monsters, and things indigest | (undo) | Sonnet 114, Line 5 |
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| So long as men can breathe or eyes can see | (undo) | Sonnet 18, Line 13 |
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| I make my love engrafted to this store | (undo) | Sonnet 37, Line 8 |
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| More flowers I noted, yet I none could see | (undo) | Sonnet 99, Line 13 |
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| To show false Art what beauty was of yore | (undo) | Sonnet 68, Line 14 |
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| And arts with thy sweet graces graced be | (undo) | Sonnet 78, Line 12 |
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| O how thy worth with manners may I sing | (undo) | Sonnet 39, Line 1 |
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| With means more blessed than my barren rhyme | (undo) | Sonnet 16, Line 4 |
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| They had not skill enough your worth to sing | (undo) | Sonnet 106, Line 12 |
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| To weigh how once I suffered in your crime | (undo) | Sonnet 120, Line 8 |
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| Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan | (undo) | Sonnet 133, Line 1 |
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| Lest the wise world should look into your moan | (undo) | Sonnet 71, Line 13 |
Congratulations! You just created a sonnet!
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