Sonnet:

A lyric poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. It is of three types:

Petrarchan (also known as Italian), Shakespearean (also known as English) and
Spenserian. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet are called octave and the
last six lines of it are called sestet. The rhyme scheme of the octave of a
Petrarchan sonnet is abba abba and that of sestet is cd cd cd or cde cde. Milton,
Wordsworth, Wyatt, Rossetti and a few other English poets have used
Petrarchan form in their sonnets.