sonnet
IPA: sˈɑnɪt
noun
- A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
verb
- (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
- (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
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Examples of "sonnet" in Sentences
- The form of the sonnet is rhetorical.
- Some of the sonnets are moralistic fables.
- He was a prolific author of licentious sonnets.
- Giacomo is credited with the invention of the sonnet.
- The poet did not write the dedication to the sonnets.
- Ed arrives at the museum and gives Sandra the sonnet.
- This is one of the most pensive and gentle of the sonnets.
- The evocation of the Shakespearean sonnet works in English.
- The poem prefigures the flower language of the famous sonnet.
- In the sixteenth century, the sonnet became popular in England.
- A sonnet is short, but that doesn't mean it's easy to write a good one!
- That the sonnet is a cover story is suggested by Wordsworth's private account of meeting
- This sonnet is one of 25 sonnets and one of over 100 poems from my collection called Eleven.
- One of the great things about this sonnet is how the flow of thought is controlled (and transformed).
- A script seems to be tougher to write in the same way that a sonnet is tougher to write than free verse.
- A collection of poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.
- There are experimental sonnets that really do test the boundaries of the sonnet – the sonnet is all about innovation within tradition, and has been since it entered the English language, via translation, with Wyatt.
- Mrs Robinsons legitimate sonnets: In Sappho and Phaon, Robinsons fervent discourse on the nature of the "legitimate sonnet" is the cornerstone of her discussion of the poetics of sensibility, and helps to establish her claim for Sappho as the exemplar of strong poetic feeling.