Assertion: sonnet | /r/HasProperty | substantial service
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Historically much the most important feature of Wyatt's experiment was the introduction of the sonnet , a very substantial service indeed; for not only did this form, like the love-theme, become by far the most popular one among English lyric poets of the next two generations, setting a fashion which was carried to an astonishing excess; but it is the only artificial form of foreign origin which has ever been really adopted and naturalized in English, and it still remains the best instrument for the terse expression of a single poetic thought.