noun. A 14-line verse form often in iambic pentameter, having one of several conventional rhyme schemes and usually featuring a shift in mood or tone after the eighth or twelfth line.

noun. A poem in this form.

noun. A song; a ballad; a short poem.

noun. Specifically A short poem in fixed form, limited to fourteen lines with a prescribed disposition of rimes.

To celebrate in sonnets.

To cover or fill with sonnets.

To compose sonnets.

intransitive verb. To compose sonnets.

noun. A short poem, -- usually amatory.

noun. 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.

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. To compose sonnets.

verb. compose a sonnet

noun. a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

verb. praise in a sonnet

"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."

English sonnet  Italian sonnet  Persiwan  poem  quatorzain  

poetise  poetize  praise  verse  versify  

ballad  couplet  ditty  drama  epic  

English sonnet  Horatian ode  Italian sonnet  Petrarchan sonnet  Pindaric ode  

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