sonnet(n = noun.communication) - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme;
is a kind of poem, verse form
has particulars: italian sonnet, petrarchan sonnet, elizabethan sonnet, english sonnet, shakespearean sonnet, spenserian sonnet
Derived forms verb sonnet₂, verb sonnet₁, noun sonneteer₁

1.  sonnet(v = verb.creation) - praise in a sonnet;
is one way to praise
Derived form noun sonnet₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

2.  sonnet(v = verb.creation) - compose a sonnet;
is one way to poetise, poetize, verse, versify
Derived form noun sonnet₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

1.  A short poem, -- usually amatory. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
" 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 rhyme, 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 are rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together." [1913 Webster]

   To compose sonnets. Milton. [1913 Webster]

sonnet, n. & v.
--n. a poem of 14 lines (usu. pentameters) using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English usu. having ten syllables per line.
--v. (sonneted, sonneting)
1 intr. write sonnets.
2 tr. address sonnets to.

Etymology:
F sonnet or It. sonetto dimin. of suono SOUND(1)

N  poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.

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