Shakespearean sonnet see under sonnet

sonnet /sonˈit/

1. Formerly, a short (esp lyrical) poem
2. A short poem of fourteen lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhymed according to one or other of certain definite schemes, forming an octave and a sestet, properly expressing two successive phases of one thought

To write sonnets

To celebrate in sonnets

sonnˈetary adjective

sonneteerˈ noun

1. A writer of sonnets
2. A poetaster (obsolete)

sonnˈetize or sonnˈetise intransitive verb

To compose sonnets

sonnet sequence noun

A connected series of sonnets composed by one poet

Miltonic sonnet

A sonnet with the rhyme scheme abbaabba cdecde

Petrarchan (or Petrarchian) sonnet

A sonnet with the rhyme scheme abbaabba cdcdcd

Shakespearean sonnet

A sonnet with the rhyme scheme ababcdcd efefgg