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Sonnet vs Canticle - What's the difference?

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Sonnet is a related term of canticle.


As nouns the difference between sonnet and canticle

is that 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 while canticle is a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.

As a verb sonnet

is to compose sonnets.

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

    * * * ----

    canticle

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia canticle) (en noun)
  • a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text

    • Usage notes

    * The Psalms are not considered to be canticles