All 4 Uses
sonnet
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Sweet Far Thing
(Edited)
- I rather like Mr. Shakespeare's sonnets.
Chpt 1sonnets = poems of a particular form
- Martha and I shall read a sonnet.
Chpt 1sonnet = poem of a particular form
- He recites a sonnet that compares me to a summer day.
Chpt 2 *
- What they have seen tonight is beyond teas and balls, curtsies and sonnets.
Chpt 4sonnets = poems of a particular form
Definitions:
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(1)
(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeAs 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)