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Submerged Sonnet: A sonnet hidden inside a longer poetic work, such as lines 235-48 of t. S. Eliot's the waste land.

Stretched Sonnet: One extended to sixteen or more lines, such as george meredith's 'modern love.'

Spenserian Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem developed by edmund spenser in his amoretti that varies the english form by interlocking the three quatrains, abab bcbc cdcd ee

Sonnet Sequence: A group of sonnets sharing the same subject matter and sometimes a dramatic situation and persona. Sir philip sidney, edmund spenser, elizabeth barrett browning, and w. H. Auden have written . . . View Full Definition

Submerged Implant: An endosseous implant with a removable head and neck to permit healing and maturation of the osteotomy and allow intra-implant trabeculation isolated from the oral cavity without a permucosa . . . View Full Definition

Submerged Lands: Lands covered by water at any stage of the tide. See tidelands.

Young Man Sonnets: The first seventeen sonnets in the Shakespearean collection published in 1609. These sonnets break the normal sonnet conventions in that the implied situation is not a poetic speaker wooing . . . View Full Definition

Terrible Sonnets: In spite of the label, this phrase does not refer to poorly written sonnets. Gerard Manley Hopkins used the term 'terrible sonnets' to designate several of his later religious poems, in whic . . . View Full Definition

Sonnet Redoublé: Fifteen sonnets, of which the last consists of all the repeated lines linking the other fourteen sonnets, in the same order in which they have appeared.

Sonnet Cycle: Another term for a sonnet sequence. See discussion below.