Sonnet
A lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. The genre was popularised by Italian poet
Francesco Petrarch. There are two main types of sonnet in the Renaissance: Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets, which are
divided into an octave and a sestet, rhyming abbaabba cdecde, and English (or Shakespearean) sonnets, divided into
three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg