as in poem
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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Recent Examples of sonnet
People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.
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Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
—David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
So there is a series of words or linguistic tropes for every single play, every poem cycle, every sonnet.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
Western governments and civil society should encourage the creative potential of Russian exiles, from the social scientists and journalists making sense of Putinism to the poets writing sonnets and the painters producing still lifes.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
—David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
So there is a series of words or linguistic tropes for every single play, every poem cycle, every sonnet.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
Western governments and civil society should encourage the creative potential of Russian exiles, from the social scientists and journalists making sense of Putinism to the poets writing sonnets and the painters producing still lifes.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sonnet
Noun
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His teacher quickly got her students analyzing the poems of William Blake.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2025
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Just before his death, McVeigh handed a copy of the poem by William Ernest Henley to the prison warden.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Listen a little more closely, however, and the lyrics often veer toward tales of dystopia and doomed love and mortality.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
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Steel denied that Williams’s lyrics were proof of crimes.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnet. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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