Sonnet

(son'nět.) [Fr.] (Poetry.) A short poem,which, according to its Italian model, consists of fourteen lines; divided into two parts, the first of eight, and the latter of six lines. According to the strictest rules, only two rhymes are allowed in the first part, and the second B C m Fig. 600.- SONOMETER. ought not to end in a couplet; but in our language, which po e es a comparative paucity of rhymes, the S. has been written with great latitude as to rhymes. [s. 838]