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# Shakespeare in a Box
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/shakespeare-in-a-box/
- Published: 2021-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Oh, Shakespeare, may your works forever charm Attracting lovers through both time and space. The ones that read your sonnets, arm in arm And those that pepper writings with your lace.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Elizabethan Sonnet, Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Oh, Shakespeare, may your works forever charm  
Attracting lovers through both time and space.  
The ones that read your sonnets, arm in arm  
And those that pepper writings with your lace.

Could some AI, a future distant still  
Acquire your ability with words?  
And generate, with its robotic quill  
Words flying off the page like courting birds?

I can’t decide if we would laugh or cry  
Would such a talent drive us to despair?  
To find out a machine, we know not why  
Can be your sole inheritor, your heir?

I do not know, but I do surely hope  
if it comes close it's not a misanthrope

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**Author notes:** Elizabethan sonnet https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783325-The-Purveyors-of-Medieval-Prosody---When-I-