| 单词 | sonnet |
| 释义 | sonnet (once / 785 pages) nv A sonnet is a poem, often a love poem, of 14 rhyming lines. Is that a love letter from your secret admirer or a formal sonnet? The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, meaning “little song.” The origin makes sense, since the first sonnets were developed by the Italian poet Petrarch. But the sonnet form we are most familiar with today is Shakespearean. Many of the most often quoted lines in poetry come from Shakespeare’s sonnets, such as this ending couplet from Sonnet 18, “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” WORD FAMILYsonnet: sonneteer, sonneting, sonnets, sonnetted, sonnetting+/sonneteer: sonneteers USAGE EXAMPLESMencken’s timeless wisdom: A martini is “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) “To arms, to armor,” she writes, with her fluent mastery of the sonnet form enacting a victory. Slate(Nov 17, 2016) 1n a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme Hypo|Hyper Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet, Shakespearean sonneta sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg Spenserian sonneta sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines 2v compose a sonnet Hyper poetise, poetize, verse, versify compose verses or put into verse 3v praise in a sonnet Hyper praise express approval of |
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