All 3 Uses of
sonnet
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Was it not Buonarotti who had carved it in the coloured marbles of a sonnet-sequence?†
Chpt 3
- The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.†
Chpt 4 *
- Your days are your sonnets.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeeditor's notes: As an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.