the password "Sonnet 29" to gain entry to a house party hosted by theater students. Canadian singer and composer Rufus Wainwright musicalized the poem in the song of the same name (Sonnet 29). The song appears on his 2016 album "Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets" and features British singer Florence Welch on leading vocals. The track before that is a reading of the Sonnet done by Carrie Fisher. In 2014 Poeterra released a pop rock version of this poem on their album "When in Disgrace" (2014). The X-Files' Cigarette Smoking Man (played by William B. Davis) first line in the second episode of the seventh season ("The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati") is the first line of this sonnet The Netflix Coen Brothers anthology western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs features this sonnet in its third instalment ("Meal Ticket"). In Big City Greens ("Wishing Well"), when Cricket's shoulder angel and shoulder devil fight inside his brain, Cricket suddenly bursts into the first two lines of the sonnet in a regal voice. The sonnet is read twice in the film All is True, first by Shakespeare (played by Kenneth Branagh) and then by the Earl of Southampton (played by Ian McKellen). Notes References Baldwin, T. W. (1950). On the Literary Genetics of Shakspeare's Sonnets. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. Hubler, Edwin (1952). The Sense of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Princeton University Press, Princeton. Schoenfeldt, Michael (2007). "The Sonnets," The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry. Patrick Cheney, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. External links Paraphrase and analysis (Shakespeare-online) British poems Sonnets by William Shakespeare