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.

Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up

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To make some special instant special-blest (undo) Sonnet 52, Line 11
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee (undo) Sonnet 4, Line 13
To make of monsters, and things indigest (undo) Sonnet 114, Line 5
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see (undo) Sonnet 18, Line 13
I make my love engrafted to this store (undo) Sonnet 37, Line 8
More flowers I noted, yet I none could see (undo) Sonnet 99, Line 13
To show false Art what beauty was of yore (undo) Sonnet 68, Line 14
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be (undo) Sonnet 78, Line 12
O how thy worth with manners may I sing (undo) Sonnet 39, Line 1
With means more blessed than my barren rhyme (undo) Sonnet 16, Line 4
They had not skill enough your worth to sing (undo) Sonnet 106, Line 12
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime (undo) Sonnet 120, Line 8
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan (undo) Sonnet 133, Line 1
Lest the wise world should look into your moan (undo) Sonnet 71, Line 13

Congratulations! You just created a sonnet!

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Dennis G. Jerz
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