sonnet

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son·net /ˈsɒnɪt $ ˈsɑː-/ noun [countable]  ALa poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern 十四行诗 Shakespeare’s sonnets 莎士比亚的十四行诗

Examples from the Corpus

sonnet• I was in my night-gown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet.• Through the Blue Mountain College home page we can zip a personalized Shakespearean sonnet, 116, to a friend.• If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance.• Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.• The fourth section returns both to the closed form of the sonnet, and to the more subjective atmosphere of former days.• The sonnets to the Friend, by contrast, elicit warmth in us by the warmth that they contain.• The last point I would wish to make about this sonnet is one of rhythm and structure.Origin sonnet (1500-1600) Italian sonetto, from Old Provençal sonet “little song”, from son “sound, song”, from Latin sonus; → SOUND1

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sonnet
son‧net /ˈsɒnət, ˈsɒnɪt $ ˈsɑː-/ noun [countable]a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
    Shakespeare’s sonnets
     

THESAURUS

■ a poem
   ▪ poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme: ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
   ▪ sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern: Shakespeare’s sonnets
   ▪ haiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables: a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
   ▪ limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme: a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
   ▪ rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme: a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations | The children were reciting a rhyme. | a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)

son·netBrE /ˈsɒnɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsɑːnɪt/ 🔊 nouna poem that has 14 lines, each containing 10 syllables, and a fixed pattern of rhyme 十四行诗；商籁体◆Shakespeare's sonnets莎士比亚的十四行诗