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Definition

a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

I like the sonnet that begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

sonnet = poem of a particular form

Romeo and Juliet opens with a sonnet.

sonnet = poem of a particular form

Shakespeare published 154 sonnets.

sonnets = poems of a particular form

You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

sonnet = a form of poetry

Okay, check out Sonnet Fifty-four. I think you'll like it.
Alex Flinn -- Beastly

sonnet = a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

sonnet = a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet?
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

sonnet = a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it?
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

sonnet = a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

sonnet = a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
Gentle lovemaking, set to romantic sonnets.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
A sonnet I could have handled.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
—Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there"....
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
The little songs and the sonnets have a meaning for me as fresh and wonderful as the dramas.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
But he never succeeded in getting a rhyme for the second verse; and at last ended by copying a sonnet in a "Keepsake."
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string...... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
If it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is: 'Please one and please all.'
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
And then there it was, suddenly entire; she held it in her hands, beautiful and reasonable, clear and complete, here—the sonnet.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
But the decision was correct, and the unanimity of the judges had its justification in the excellence of the sonnet.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

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