 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sonnet
noun: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme
scheme
verb
1: praise in a sonnet
2: compose a sonnet
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sonnet \Son"net\, verb (used without an object)
To compose sonnets. ''Strains that come almost to
sonneting.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sonnet \Son"net\, noun [F., fr. It. sonetto, fr. suono a sound, a
song, fr. L. sonus a sound. See {Sound} noise.]
1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] --Shak.
He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn
unto Apollo Pythius. --Holland.
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.
Note: 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "sonnet":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge,
dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode,
epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle,
limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme,
ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle,
poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay,
satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet,
versicle, villanelle, virelay
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