Synonyms of sonnets

sonnets

noun

plural of sonnet

as in poems

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.

Related Words

• poems
• lyrics
• songs
• epigrams
• odes
• elegies
• madrigals
• limericks
• eclogues
• pastorals
• psalms
• triolets
• poetries
• idylls
• dithyrambs
• villanelles
• verses
• epics
• rhymes
• English sonnets
• pastorales
• jingles
• runes
• georgics
• ballads
• rondeaux
• epodes
• rondelles
• laments
• clerihews
• haiku
• eposes
• anacreontics
• rondelets
• epopees
• senryu
• tankas
• poesies
• lays
• versifications
• vers libres
• free verses
• minstrelsies
• blank verses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sonnets

People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code. — Anshul Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026

Recently reissued by original label Rough Trade Records, Songs to Remember epitomizes the group’s attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement as stately and cohesive as a book of sonnets. — Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2026

Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code. — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026

The character is speaking sonnets and doing ‘Ozymandias’ as well. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2026