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Tennyson, losing heart, junked poem (6)

Ross

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sonnet

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'poem' is the definition.
(type of poem)

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(Other definitions for sonnet that I've seen before include "Fourteen-lined verse" , "Fourteen-line 11" , "14-line poem" , "Poem of 14 lines - Shakespeare wrote lots" , "Short poem with 14 lines" .)

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