Sonnet vs Poetry - What's the difference?
sonnet | poetry |
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.
The class of literature comprising poems.
Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
A poet's literary production
A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium
As nouns the difference between sonnet and poetry
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 poetry is (rare|or|archaic).As a verb sonnet
is to compose sonnets.sonnet
English
(wikipedia sonnet)Noun
(en noun)See also
* poem * English sonnet * Italian sonnet * quatorzainAnagrams
* * * ----poetry
English
(wikipedia poetry)Alternative forms
* (archaic )Noun
(en-noun)- That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry''' in motion, fitting the musical ' poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration
