Shakespearean sonnet

Paul Bowles put it that way in Let It Come Down, a title taken from a Shakespearean assassin just before he strikes.

The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.

One man wrote a sonnet to the woman, verses in her honor, telling about her beautiful eyes.

The principal classes of lyric poetry are the song, the ode, the elegy, and the sonnet.

A sonnet is a lyric that deals with a single thought, idea, or sentiment in a fixed metrical form.

As Mr. Rossetti has noted in an exquisite sonnet, his mind remained always at liberty.