what is the sonnet????

[southerner]

One of the famous sonnet poet is William Shakespear (the word sonnet refers to a 14 -lines poem written in iambic pentameter ,each line contains10 syllales ,5 of them which are usually stressed.The word"sonnet" come from the Italian sonetto ,which means "little sound" or "little song" here I 've one 4 Shakespear I hope to enjoy it
Sonnet 29
William Shakespear

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love rememb’red such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings