 .allowing Hilbert to put the conventional volta (or turn) anywhere or nowhere.The effect is to de-formulaicize and de-familiarize the sonnet’s traditional rhetorical shape, shifting the weight of emphasis off of argument and onto imagery and voice, an effect to which the distant mutedness of the rhymes also contributes.”

Other poets have written in the form, including Amy Lemmon, whose "Asymptotic" appeared the book "Enjoy Hot or Iced" (2011), Ryan Wilson, whose "Re-Entry" appeared in "The American Journal of Poetry" (2019), Rick Mullin, whose "De Profundis" appeared in "Literary Bohemia" (2013), Paul Siegell, whose poem "Sonnet that Fell out of St. Catherine's Mouth" appeared in "The Raintown Review", the Irish poet Justin Quinn, whose "The Snow Turns Down the Sound on Everything" appeared in his book "The Months", Lorna Blake, whose sonnet "Endangered Species" appeared in "Waccamau", Bill Coyle, whose sonnet "Hindsight" appeared in "The New Criterion", and David Yezzi, whose sonnet "Varnishing Days" appeared in the "PN Review".