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Couplet vs Sonnet - What's the difference?

couplet | sonnet |

As nouns the difference between couplet and sonnet

is that couplet is (literature) a pair of lines with rhyming end words while sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

As a verb sonnet is

to compose sonnets.

couplet

English

(wikipedia couplet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
  • A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
    • 5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in

    Synonyms

    * (streets)

    See also

    * tercet * quatrain * cinquain * sestet * septet * octave

    Anagrams

    *

    sonnet

    English

    (wikipedia sonnet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

    • See also

    * poem * English sonnet * Italian sonnet * quatorzain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compose sonnets.
  • * Milton
    • Strains that come almost to sonneting .

    Anagrams

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