sonnet > define

noun

• A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.

verb

• Praise in a sonnet.
• Compose a sonnet. .

• (v.i.) To compose sonnets.
• (n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.
• (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.