English sonnet

noun

Definition of English sonnetnext
as in rondelet

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  1. psalm
  2. sonnet
  3. pastoral
  4. poem
  5. epigram
  6. epic
  7. madrigal
  8. limerick
Noun
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of psalm
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of sonnet
Noun
  • The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.
    Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of pastoral
Noun
  • The video is set to the sound of Louis Armstrong reading the iconic poem mentioned in the caption — written by Clement Clarke Moore.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The plot, of course, is a riff on Clement Clarke Moore’s poem about a man who steps from his bed while his wife and children slumber to observe St. Nicholas doing what St. Nicholas does.
    Colin Fleming, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of poem
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Definition of epigram
Noun
  • Interstellar—Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway—is being celebrated with a 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray box set release.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Tony Kushner's millennial epic set during the AIDS crisis is considered by some critics one of the 20th century's best plays.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of epic
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Definition of madrigal
Noun
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
Definition of limerick
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