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Italian sonnet   /ɪtˈæljən sˈɑnɪt/   Listen
Italian sonnet

noun
1.
A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd.  Synonym: Petrarchan sonnet.






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"Italian sonnet" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself to be deluded by specious appearances. "I have had dust thrown in my eyes too often," would he say, "to be blinded so. Let us never confound matters of belief with matters of opinion." Some one urged in his presence the preference of hope to possession; and as I remember produced an Italian sonnet on the subject. "Let us not," cries Johnson, "amuse ourselves with subtleties and sonnets, when speaking about hope, which is the follower of faith and the precursor of eternity; but if you only mean those air-built hopes which to-day ...
— Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - during the last twenty years of his life • Hester Lynch Piozzi



Words linked to "Italian sonnet" :   sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet



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