sonnet

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  1. noun A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
  2. noun A poem in this form.

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  • Some of his epistles are enriched with a song or a sonnet, then just written, and there are also frequent references in them to American editions of his poetical and prose works, which he collected at the request of his Boston publishers. —  Yesterdays with Authors
  • One of our longest, as it is one of our most beautiful poems, the Faerie Queene, is written in a stanza which demands the continual recurrence of an equal number of rhymes; and the chief objection to our adopting the sonnet is the paucity of our rhymes. —  Lives of the English Poets
  • A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. —  The Blogging Parson
  • This sonnet is also very like Ronsard's Ode (livre v. No. xxxii.) —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • E. C.'s rare volume is reprinted in the Lamport Garland (Roxburghe Club), 1881 153b} Even this sonnet is adapted from Drayton. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
 

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  1. French or Italian sonetto (French, from Italian), from Old Provençal sonet, diminutive of son, song, from Latin sonus, a sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also sonette; = Dutch sonnet, from French sonnet, OF, sonet, a song, = Spanish Portuguese soneto = Italian sonetto, from Pr, sonet, a song (later G. Swedish sonett = Danish sonet, a sonnet, canzonet), diminutive of son, sound, tune, song, from L, sonus, a sound: see sound.
  2. from sonnet, n.
 

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/ˈsɑnɛt/
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