The number of quotations is impressive: a total of 175 phrases from forty-three different sources,33 on average six to eight quotations for each of the twenty-seven sonnets.
On the one hand, this text conforms to traditional sonnet principles with its fourteen lines divided 4+4+3+3 and its regular metre and unambiguous rhyme scheme.
The sonnet that accompanies the catalogue description explicitly recommends work as a means of driving out the evils of the _esh.
On the face of it, this was just a collection of ten sonnets, each comprising fourteen verses, as it should.
Despite its name, it has no connection with the genre of the sonnet.
I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.
Unlike the sonnet, of course, the opera libretto did not make specific formal claims on music.
Its semantic split is not a border line that crosses the sonnet and divides it into intellectual and existential parts.
