Definition of Sonnet

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Sonnet

A short poem, -- usually amatory.

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.

To compose sonnets.

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Sonnet Quotations

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
Sharon Olds

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
Austin Dobson

Sonnet Translations

sonnet in German is Sonett
sonnet in Hungarian is szonett
sonnet in Spanish is soneto

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