In A Hint of Rosemary, Hazel Hall is not afraid to push boundaries as she explores the traditional sonnet, its connections with classical Japanese poetic forms, and their shared musicality. She points out similarities between these forms, but also celebrates their differences. This collection includes sonnets with haiku or tanka attached, a sonnet using the same rhyme throughout, a sonnet created with fourteen lines of single-line haiku and a fourteen line ghazal in iambic pentameter.