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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sonnet \Son"net\, v. i. To compose sonnets. ``Strains that come almost to sonneting.'' --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sonnet \Son"net\, n. [F., fr It sonetto, fr suono a sound, a song, fr L. sonus a sound. See {Sound} noise.] 1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] --Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. --Holland. 2. A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule Note: In the proper sonnet each line has five accents, and the octave has but two rhymes, the second third sixth and seventh lines being of one thyme, and the first fourth fifth and eighth being of another. In the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme together. Often the three lines of the first stanza rhyme severally with the three lines of the second In Shakespeare's sonnets, the first twelve lines rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sonnet n : a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme v 1: praise in a sonnet 2: compose a sonnet
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