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 Definitions for Sonnet: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Sonnet \Son"net\, n. [F., fr. It. sonetto, fr. suono a sound, a
song, fr. L. sonus a sound. See Sound noise.]
1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] --Shak.
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He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn
unto Apollo Pythius. --Holland.
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2. 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.
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Note: In the proper sonnet each line has five accents, and
the octave has but two rhymes, the second, third,
sixth, and seventh lines being of one rhyme, and the
first, fourth, fifth, and eighth being of another. In
the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three
rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme together.
Often the three lines of the first stanza rhyme
severally with the three lines of the second. In
Shakespeare's sonnets, the first twelve lines are
rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Sonnet \Son"net\, v. i.
To compose sonnets. "Strains that come almost to sonneting."
--Milton.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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sonnet
n : a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme
scheme
v 1: praise in a sonnet
2: compose a sonnet
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "sonnet":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge,
dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode,
epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle,
limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme,
ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle,
poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay,
satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet,
versicle, villanelle, virelay
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User-created article about the poetic form, the sonnet, including notes on Italian sonnets, English sonnets, and modern interpretations.
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