Sonnet vs. Poem — What's the Difference?

A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in the Italian poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention for expressing courtly love.

A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.

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 composition in verse rather than in prose

A poem in this form.

A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.

A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

A literary piece written in verse.

(intransitive) To compose sonnets.

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

(transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

A short poem, - usually amatory.

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; - contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

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.

A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

To compose sonnets.

A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

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

Praise in a sonnet

Compose a sonnet