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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This is the kind of show where deep, lasting soul-filling love is signified by the sharing of a single Shakespeare sonnet.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.
—Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.
—Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sonnet
Noun
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Still, such men recorded the poems, songs, myths, stories and place names of Tonga, and without such records, the stories of (mythical?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The lyrics can confuse you, too.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, guys have more than rap lyrics on their mind and soon share their feelings on climate change and the war in Ukraine.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnet. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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