sonnet

noun

son·net ˈsä-nət

: a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme

also : a poem in this pattern

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People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app. —

Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024 According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare. —

David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024 So there is a series of words or linguistic tropes for every single play, every poem cycle, every sonnet. —

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024 Western governments and civil society should encourage the creative potential of Russian exiles, from the social scientists and journalists making sense of Putinism to the poets writing sonnets and the painters producing still lifes. —

Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sonnet