A sonnet is very tough to create
Composed of iambs, and fourteen lines long The sounds unstressed, then stressed, and alternate This took an hour but I still did it wrong. It is from Italian, through the word Sonetto, meaning "a miniature song" And beyond Latin sonus, it's all blurred; Proto-Italic helped the word along. The best hope is the reconstruction swen Which we think had to do with "noise" or "sound". Well, sonnet's usage peaked with Shakespeare, then It tapered off but is still used around. Although very difficult to produce, This etymology's neat, I deduce.
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AUTHORHello! I'm Adam Aleksic, a sophomore studying linguistics and government at Harvard University, where I founded the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. I also have disturbing interests in politics, vexillology, geography, board games, conlanging, and law.
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