Sonnet

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.

2. 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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To compose sonnets. "Strains that come almost to sonneting." Milton.