Vincent Millay to Terrance Hayes then beyond in both directions. Think Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' or Aretha Franklin's 'I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You.' Not so stodgy now, right? Making the sonnet dance again has become something of an American tradition, too, one that extends from Edna St. The sonnet may be the poetry world's answer to the waltz: a tried-and-true form that people tend to write off as stuffy until they realize that a song they love is actually written at least partly in 3/4 time.
