sonnet

A 14-line verse form often in iambic pentameter, having one of several conventional rhyme schemes and usually featuring a shift in mood or tone after the eighth or twelfth line.

A poem in this form.

A song; a ballad; a short poem.

Specifically A short poem in fixed form, limited to fourteen lines with a prescribed disposition of rimes.

To celebrate in sonnets.

To cover or fill with sonnets.

To compose sonnets.

To compose sonnets.

A short poem, — usually amatory.

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.