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SONNET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sonnet" is a kind of...):
poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sonnet"):
Italian sonnet; Petrarchan sonnet (a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd)
Elizabethan sonnet; English sonnet; Shakespearean sonnet (a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg)
Spenserian sonnet (a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee)
Derivation:
sonnet (compose a sonnet)
sonnet (praise in a sonnet)
sonneteer (a poet who writes sonnets)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compose a sonnet
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "sonnet" is one way to...):
poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)
Domain category:
poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Praise in a sonnet
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "sonnet" is one way to...):
praise (express approval of)
Domain category:
poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
Context examples:
The sonnet he composed that night was the first of a love-cycle of fifty sonnets which was completed within two months.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But this night, after algebra and physics, and an attempt at a sonnet, he got into bed and opened "First Principles."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Early one evening, struggling with a sonnet that twisted all awry the beauty and thought that trailed in glow and vapor through his brain, Martin was called to the telephone.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
What in hell's success if it isn't right there in your Stevenson sonnet, which outranks Henley's 'Apparition,' in that 'Love-cycle,' in those sea- poems?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And among the hills, on their favorite knoll, Martin and Ruth sat side by side, their heads bent over the same pages, he reading aloud from the love-sonnets of the woman who had loved Browning as it is given to few men to be loved.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
