sonnet
(noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
sonnet
(verb) compose a sonnet
sonnet
(verb) praise in a sonnet
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sonnet (plural sonnets)
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.
sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)
(intransitive) To compose sonnets.
(transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
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Source: Wiktionary
Son"net, n. Etym: [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. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.
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.
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 thyme, 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 rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together.
Son"net, v. i.
Definition: To compose sonnets. "Strains that come almost to sonneting." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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