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sonnet

son.net \'sa:n-*t\ n [It sonetto, fr. OProv sonet little song, fr. son 
   sound, song], fr. L sonus sound : a fixed verse form of Italian origin 
   consisting of fourteen lines that a re typically five-foot iambics rhyming 
   according to a prescribed scheme; also : a poem in this pattern