1. (n.) A poem of fourteen lines\, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

2. (v. i.) To compose sonnets.

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 ode palinode pastoral pastoral elegy pastorela pastourelle poem prothalamium rhyme rondeau rondel roundel roundelay satire sestina sloka song sonnet sequence tanka tenso tenzone threnody triolet troubadour poem verse verselet versicle villanelle virelay