Sonnet

(noun.) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.

(verb.) compose a sonnet.

(verb.) praise in a sonnet.

编辑:卢克

• But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• In Rome he wrote a sonnet to the sculptor Canova, and the literary circles of Italy proclaimed him a poet after their own heart. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Many an unhappy lover has found peace by expressing his misery in sonnet form. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When did I whip up syllabub sonnets or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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