{"id":6807,"date":"2026-08-14T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/sonnet-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:29:19","slug":"sonnet-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/sonnet-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet II by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dr-poem-page\">\n<section id=\"sonnet-ii\">\n<p><strong>\u201cSonnet II\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is a fourteen-line poem from <em>Love Is Poetry<\/em>. Beauty and obsession give way to a claim of freedom, while the final line preserves the instability left behind.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"poem\">\n<h2>Sonnet II<\/h2>\n<div class=\"dr-poem-text\">\n<p>Magnificence, munificence, precision,<br \/>And, after all, her eyes&#8217; magnetic touch,<br \/>Reverberating through the hearts and such<br \/>To make their owners objects of derision.<br \/>I was among them, caught in indecision,<br \/>Naively thinking I had been too much,<br \/>Avenging rhymes that seemed a perfect clutch,<br \/>But ended up without a proper vision.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lessons learned from this endeavor<br \/>Negates the need to ever love again<br \/>Obsessively, which is a way to troubles.<br \/>Like most of us, I grew a little clever:<br \/>Imagination broke the fancy chain<br \/>So now I\u2019m free. And yet, my spirit wobbles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>2015, May 13th 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"publication\">\n<h2>Publication<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSonnet II\u201d appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-is-poetry\/\"><em>Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, in <em>The Playwright\u2019s Rights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"freedom-and-instability\">\n<h2>Freedom and instability<\/h2>\n<p>The octave turns the beloved\u2019s beauty into a force that disturbs judgment and poetic self-command. The sestet answers with a lesson about obsessive love and a \u201cfancy chain\u201d broken by imagination. The final wobble keeps that freedom emotionally unsettled.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"related-reading\">\n<h2>Related reading<\/h2>\n<p>Continue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/chain-of-lies\/\"><em>Chain of Lies<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/sonnet-i\/\"><em>Sonnet I<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poetry\/\">Poetry by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/rhyming-poetry\/\">Rhyming Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"rights\">\n<h2>Text and citation<\/h2>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSonnet II\u201d by Danil Rudoy is a fourteen-line poem from Love Is Poetry about beauty, obsession, imagination, freedom, and the instability that remains after release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["dr-evergreen-document","dr-schema-webpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}