| 单词 | crown of sonnets |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrown of sonnets 25. †(a) A kind of verse in which the last line of each stanza is repeated to begin the next stanza (obsolete). (b) A sequence of related poems with this metrical structure; chiefly in crown of sonnets. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > other lyrics of fixed form virelayc1385 crowna1586 epode1598 ballata1762 pantun1783 villanelle1877 kyrielle1887 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. sig. Hh8v Lamon..began this Dizaine, answered in that kinde of verse, which is called the Crowne. 1621 Pamphilia 36 in M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania A Crowne of Sonnets dedicated to Love. 1824 Kaleidoscope 24 Feb. 279/2 She had provided herself with a collection of..farewells epilogues, verses, and crowns, for every town she was going to visit. 1945 J. Cary Sonnet 40 The kind of sequence known as the corona or crown of sonnets..links the units of the sequence very closely in both theme and rhyme. 1971 G. Sorrentino Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things i. 16 A crown of Petrarchan sonnets he wrote for her twentieth birthday. 1990 R. H. Ray John Donne Compan. 196 Donne himself..says that this crown of poems..is weaved out of his own ‘low devout melancholy’. < as lemmas |
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