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Sonnet [SOHN-et]: A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of five-foot iambic verse. In the English or Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three quatrains (with six alternating rhymes) followed by a detached rhymed couplet which is usually epigrammatic. In the original italian form, such as Longfellow's Divina Commedia, the fourteen lines are divided into an octave of two rhyme-sounds arranged abba abba and a sestet of two additional rhyme sounds which may be variously arranged. This latter form tends to divide the thought into two opposing or complementary phases of the same idea. NOTE: A variant of the Shakespearean form is the Spenserian sonnet which links the quatrains with a chain or interlocked rhyme scheme, abab bcbc cdcd ee. NOTE: A sonnet sequence is a seies of sonnets in which there is a discernable unifying theme, while each one retains its own structural independence. All of Shakespeare's sonnets, for example, were part of a sequence, (See quatorzain, volta) (See also anthology, canon, companion poem, cycle, lyric sequence.)

Title Author Date Posted Date Created Ratings
Votes Creativity Form Imagery Overall
 IX - Tears and Honey Austin Halling-Rowe 01/03/2011 01/03/2011 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 jamaican vanilla essential oil Angela Thomas 05/16/2012 05/15/2012 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Jenni Jim Benz 08/09/2005 08/09/2005 4 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Jingle Bells and Ho-ho-ho (English Sonnet) Paganini Jones 12/04/2011 12/04/2011 2 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Justice Leonard M Hawkes 06/15/2019 06/15/2019 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Lady Illumer Melina Raven Maness Diebold 10/23/2003 10/23/2003 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Evocative Memorable
 lasagna Angela Thomas 04/11/2009 04/11/2009 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Late Night Fiasco Deborah S Regan 01/14/2010 01/14/2010 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Vivid Memorable
 Leaving Ithaca Robert Cameron Hazelton 12/24/2005 12/24/2005 1 Brilliant Outstanding Flow Evocative Memorable
 Let Me Not Joe Cramer 02/26/2007 02/26/2007 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Let Not Joe Cramer 03/11/2006 03/11/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Lips of Wallachia Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi 02/28/2017 02/28/2017 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Long Lonely Miles Slip by Far and Away Joe Cramer 09/12/2008 09/12/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Love's Emotions Joe Cramer 03/13/2006 12/20/1981 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Love Song Ulyss Rubey 02/09/2002 02/09/2002 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 love sonnet Nanette Bellman 01/09/2004 01/09/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Love Unspoken Linda Fuller 04/01/2012 03/31/2012 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Loving You Joe Cramer 05/18/2006 08/11/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 luggage Angela Thomas 10/02/2009 10/02/2009 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 macy's Angela Thomas 10/28/2004 10/27/2004 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Making Me Smile Joe Cramer 08/12/2008 08/12/2008 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 Mama Told Me About You - A Sonnet Meghan Helmich 06/12/2017 06/12/2017 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 manifest - Explicit Angela Thomas 09/29/2009 09/29/2009 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 mckibben, 6:03am Angela Thomas 11/18/2011 11/18/2011 This Poem Is Currently Not Rated
 melancholy Angela Thomas 12/17/2011 12/17/2011 1 Outstanding Outstanding Flow Vivid Well Written
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