sonnet: [16] A sonnet is etymologically a ‘little sound’. The word comes, via French sonnet and Italian sonetto, from Provençal sonet, a diminutive form of son ‘song’. This in turn was descended from Latin sonus ‘sound’ (source of English sound). => sound
sonnet (n.)
1557 (in title of Surrey's poems), from Middle French sonnet (1540s) or directly from Italian sonetto, literally "little song," from Old Provençal sonet "song," diminutive of son "song, sound," from Latin sonus "sound" (see sound (n.1)).
Originally in English also "any short lyric poem;" precise meaning is from Italian, where Petrarch (14c.) developed a scheme of an eight-line stanza (rhymed abba abba) followed by a six-line stanza (cdecde, the Italian sestet, or cdcdcd, the Sicilian sestet). Shakespeare developed the English Sonnet for his rhyme-poor native tongue: three Sicilian quatrains followed by a heroic couplet (ababcdcdefefgg). The first stanza sets a situation or problem, and the second comments on it or resolves it.
实用例句
1. He tossed off a sonnet.
他毫不费力地就作了一首十四行诗.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The composer set a sonnet to music.
作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Of the sonnet eleven of the lines are mere padding and say nothing.
那首十四行诗中有11行都是废话，毫无意义。
来自柯林斯例句
4. In her trembling voice she read to him Rupert Brook's sonnet.
她颤声朗诵给他听卢泊·布鲁克的十四行诗.
来自辞典例句
5. In the'sonnet - to Science ', Poe laments the disappearance of magic.
