sonnet

  • 131SONNET —    a form of poetical composition invented in the 13th century, consisting of 14 decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic iambic lines, rhymed according to two well established schemes which bear the names of their two most famous exponents, Shakespeare… …

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  • 132sonnet — [[t]sɒ̱nɪt[/t]] sonnets N COUNT A sonnet is a poem that has 14 lines. Each line has 14 syllables, and the poem has a fixed pattern of rhymes …

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