english sonnet
1English sonnet — n. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET * * * …
2English sonnet — n. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET …
3English sonnet — noun a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg • Syn: ↑Shakespearean sonnet, ↑Elizabethan sonnet • Hypernyms: ↑sonnet …
4English sonnet — noun Date: 1890 a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg called also Shakespearean sonnet …
5English sonnet — noun A sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Syn: Shakespearean sonnet …
6English sonnet. — See Shakespearean sonnet. [1900 05] * * * …
7English sonnet — Eng′lish son′net n. lit. Shakespearean sonnet • Etymology: 1900–05 …
8English sonnet. — See Shakespearean sonnet. [1900 05] …
9Sonnet 115 — Sonnet|115 Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you dearer: Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer. But reckoning Time, whose million d accidents… …
10sonnet — 1557 (in title of Surrey s poems), from Fr. sonnet (1540s) or directly from It. sonetto, lit. little song, from O.Prov. sonet song, dim. of son song, sound, from L. sonus sound (see SOUND (Cf. sound) (n.1)). Originally in English also any short… …
