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sonnet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB write ▪ A decade later, Gusmao will write a sonnet to his Mauser, a 1914 bolt-action rifle. ▪ Whereas the person who can write a sonnet Has got it made. ▪ I was writing sonnets myself, but that did not satisfy me. EXAMPLES ...
Usage examples of sonnet.
Success that poisons many a baser mind May lift--- But the sonnet had never known completion.
As he was writing his ode, I composed a sonnet on the same subject, and, expressing his admiration for it he begged me to sign it, and to allow him to send it with his poetry.
The next morning the Abbe Gama came in just as I had finished recopying my sonnet, and said he would breakfast with me.
As I could not restrain a smile at the good opinion the poet had of his works, he offered to read me a few sonnets.
I took it respectfully, and I prepared to read it, but the amiable marchioness told me to put it in my pocket and return it to the cardinal the next day, although she did not think the sonnet worth so much trouble.
He lived in the household of Manimenesh as his poet and praisemaker, and his sonnets, ghazals, and odes were recited throughout the city.
He presented me with a gold snuffbox as a reward for a very poor sonnet which I had written for his dear Grizellini.
After dinner, Don Antonio informed me that the Duchess de Bovino had expressed a wish to know the Abbe Casanova who had written the sonnet in honour of her relative, and that he would be very happy to introduce me to her as his own cousin.
Dessert was nearly over, the conversation was very animated, when suddenly the intended husband of Angelique claimed our attention for the reading of a sonnet which he had composed and dedicated to me.
He informed me that he had written three hundred sonnets against the abbe, who would burst with rage if they were ever printed.
I thanked him, and placing the sonnet in my pocket promised to write one for him.
It was a day such as the poets of the Levan described in their sonnets, or the minstrels of Tarrabon sang of.
Then come five sonnets to Pietro Aretino, the witty poet and scoffer of the Renaissance era.
The sestet which followed, to complete the sonnet, was less derivative and therefore less successful, Dame Beatrice thought.
Another abbe read an incendiary sonnet against the government, and several took a copy of it.