Well, glad if you found the sonnets website useful, Stephanie ... but what really caused my dismay was the fact that you found many of the sonnets "trite"! Some of them are a bit repetitive, I guess ... but many of them are wonderful. Take the opening lines of 73, for instance:

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

with that terrific image of the tracery of stonework inside a church compared with the tracery of branches and twigs revealed in Autumn, where birds, rather than choristers, have been singing ... Now, how could that be called trite?

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