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sonnet
noun as in poem
noun as in poesy
Example Sentences
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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