sonnet
form of poetry with fourteen lines and strict rhyming structure
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Summary
sonnet is a poetic form[1]. sonnet ranks in the top 2% of poetic form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,934 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Giacomo da Lentini[3]
- Instance of: field of work[4]
- Subclass of: forme fixe[5]
- Commons category: Sonnets[6]
- Country of origin: Kingdom of Sicily[7]
- Has part(s): quatrain[8], tercet[9], stanza[10], verse[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1300[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sonnets[13]
- Described by source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[20]
- Practiced by: sonnetist[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
Why It Matters
sonnet has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] sonnet is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]