sonnet
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1. sonnet - Noun
2. sonnet - Verb
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A short poem, -- usually amatory.
A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
To compose sonnets.
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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.