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a composition made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern
- He wrote gushy sonnets to his girlfriend when he was away at camp.
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“Sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnet. Accessed 10 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of sonnet was circa 1555
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