The Frasier Files
✦Literature

Sonnet

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A fourteen-line poem traditionally associated with love poetry, originating in 13th-century Italy and popularized by Petrarch and Shakespeare. Frasier composes and leaves Julia an original sonnet as a voicemail, comparing love to a ship on stormy seas.

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Appearance

Mentioned once in A Man, a Plan, and a Gal: Julia.

A Man, a Plan, and a Gal: Julia

Season 11 · Episode 2 · S11E02

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“there was a sonnet: "Fair love's ship ne'er sailed o'er unstorm'd seas. The fickle stars, her compass, bright and cruel..."”
— Frasier

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