Sonnet
['sɒnɪt] or ['sɑnɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
(verb.) compose a sonnet.
(verb.) praise in a sonnet.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.
(n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
(v. i.) To compose sonnets.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Poem (of fourteen lines).
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Definition
n. a poem in a stanza mostly iambic in movement properly decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic in metre always in fourteen lines—originally composed of an octave and a sestet—properly expressing two successive phases of one thought.—v.t. and v.i. to celebrate in sonnets.—adj. Sonn′etary.—n. Sonneteer′ a composer of sonnets.—v.i. Sonn′etise to compose sonnets.—v.t. to celebrate in a sonnet.—n. Sonn′etist (Shak.) a sonneteer.
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Examples
- But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In Rome he wrote a sonnet to the sculptor Canova, and the literary circles of Italy proclaimed him a poet after their own heart. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many an unhappy lover has found peace by expressing his misery in sonnet form. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When did I whip up syllabub sonnets or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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