(n.) A short poetical composition to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem\; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

English sonnet Horatian ode Italian sonnet Petrarchan sonnet Pindaric ode Sapphic ode Shakespearean sonnet alba anacreontic balada ballad ballade bucolic canso chanson clerihew dirge dithyramb eclogue elegy epic epigram epithalamium epode epopee epopoeia epos georgic ghazel haiku idyll jingle limerick lyric madrigal monody narrative poem nursery rhyme palinode pastoral pastoral elegy pastorela pastourelle poem prothalamium rhyme rondeau rondel roundel roundelay satire sestina sloka song sonnet sonnet sequence tanka tenso tenzone threnody triolet troubadour poem verse verselet versicle villanelle virelay