Crossword-Solution: SONNET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sonnet | n. | A short poem, -- usually amatory. |
| Sonnet | n. | 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. |
| Sonnet | v. i. | To compose sonnets. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SONNET | anagram | NONEST, NONETS, SENTON, TENONS, TENSON, TONNES |
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Sentences with SONNET (5)
The first of these -- they are all in the larger forms of art -- is the dramatic sonnet, by which I do not mean merely a sonnet in dialogue or advancing by simple contrast; but one in which there may be these things, but also there is a tragic reversal or its equivalent.
Presley's sonnet, 'The Better Part,' there is the same note as in your picture, the same sincerity of tone, the same subtlety of touch, the same nuances,--ah.” “Oh, my dear Madame,” murmured the artist, interrupting Presley's impatient retort; “I am a mere bungler.
And now, there's a little sonnet-thing I was working on when you appeared on the scene--” “Oh, if you WON'T be sensible,” cried the Boy, getting up, “I'm going off home.
According to this version, the well read Oppenheimer based the name Trinity on the fourteenth Holy Sonnet by John Donne, a 16th century English poet and sermon writer.
Sonnet Oh for a poet -- for a beacon bright To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, long astray, And flush Parnassus with a newer light; To put these little sonnet-men to flight Who fashion, in a shrewd, mechanic way, Songs without souls, that flicker for a day, To vanish in irrevocable night.
Quotes with SONNET (3)
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?'Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can buy, have no…
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy." Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 166 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).