Question

poets indited sonnets to them; friends and admirers thronged around them. source: dora thorne in the sentence above, indited has the same or almost the same meaning as: dispatched presented recited composed

Explanation:

"Indited" in the context of poets and sonnets means to write or compose. "Composed" has a similar meaning in this context as it refers to the act of creating written works like sonnets. The other options - dispatched (sent off), presented (given or shown), recited (spoken aloud from memory) - do not fit as well as "composed" in terms of the act of creating the sonnets.

Answer:

D. composed