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A sonnet is a fourteen line poem about a single theme with a standard rhyme scheme. (noun)

An example of sonnet is "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

See sonnet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a poem normally of fourteen lines in any of several fixed verse and rhyme schemes, typically in rhymed iambic pentameter: sonnets characteristically express a single theme or idea

transitive verb, intransitive verb

sonnetize

See sonnet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(sŏnˈĭt)

noun

A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
A poem in this form.

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