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The definition of a sonnet is a fourteen line poem about a single theme with a standard rhyme scheme.

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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

Origin: Fr < It sonnetto < Prov sonet, dim. of son, a sound, song < L sonus, a sound

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See sonnet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: or Italian sonetto (French, from Italian)

Origin: , from Old Provençal sonet

Origin: , diminutive of son, song

Origin: , from Latin sonus, a sound; see swen- in Indo-European roots

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