sonnet
十四行诗,十四行诗集,十四行詩,十四行书
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Definitions
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- : Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines followed by a minor group of 6 lines, and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
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- : Archaic. to compose sonnets.
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- : Older Use. to celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets.
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Examples
He wrote published sonnets and read widely, encouraging others.
Is it possible to follow up a school-shooting episode with lines from Sonnet 116?
Your character in Wit seeks strength in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, especially his Holy Sonnet 10, “Death Be Not Proud.”
The new book celebrates the sonnet's uneven return to grace.
The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.
One man wrote a sonnet to the woman, verses in her honor, telling about her beautiful eyes.
The principal classes of lyric poetry are the song, the ode, the elegy, and the sonnet.
A sonnet is a lyric that deals with a single thought, idea, or sentiment in a fixed metrical form.
As Mr. Rossetti has noted in an exquisite sonnet, his mind remained always at liberty.