- English sonnet
- noun Date: 1890 a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg — called also Shakespearean sonnet
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
English sonnet
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English sonnet — n. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET * * * … Universalium
English sonnet — n. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET … English World dictionary
English sonnet — noun a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg • Syn: ↑Shakespearean sonnet, ↑Elizabethan sonnet • Hypernyms: ↑sonnet … Useful english dictionary
English sonnet — noun A sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Syn: Shakespearean sonnet … Wiktionary
English sonnet. — See Shakespearean sonnet. [1900 05] * * * … Universalium
English sonnet — Eng′lish son′net n. lit. Shakespearean sonnet • Etymology: 1900–05 … From formal English to slang
English sonnet. — See Shakespearean sonnet. [1900 05] … Useful english dictionary
Sonnet 115 — Sonnet|115 Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you dearer: Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer. But reckoning Time, whose million d accidents… … Wikipedia
sonnet — 1557 (in title of Surrey s poems), from Fr. sonnet (1540s) or directly from It. sonetto, lit. little song, from O.Prov. sonet song, dim. of son song, sound, from L. sonus sound (see SOUND (Cf. sound) (n.1)). Originally in English also any short… … Etymology dictionary
Sonnet — The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term sonnet derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto , both meaning little song. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a… … Wikipedia
