sonnet.
(Del it. sonetto, and this of the Tal. sonus(sound).
1. m. poetic composition consisting of fourteen hendecasyllabic verses, distributed in two string quartets and two triplets. In each of the quartets they rhyme, as a general rule, the first verse with the fourth and the second with the third, and both the dissonance must be one themselves. In the triplets can be these sorted in different ways.
