The difference between a sonnet and a poem
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Is that poem is a literary piece written in verse while sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
In the world of literature, the difference between poems and sonnets are always misinterpreted or messed up. Many tend to think that a poem and a sonnet is way two different works of art, which rarely connects with each other. Yet the truth is, a poem is the main work of art in literature and sonnets fall under it as one of the most popular and widely used types of poems.
Poem – Definition and Description :
A poem can be defined as a literary creation completed by the formation of words, giving specific attention to its literary features like diction, rhyme, rhythm and imagery in order to bring out an expression of feeling through imaginative thoughts. In simple a poem is a form of writing conveying one or many feeling under different characteristics of literature. Poems contain different structures and varieties. Among these types we can identify; an Elegy, a Ballad, a Sonnet, Free Verse, Limerick, Haiku, Couplet and Narrative.
Sonnet- Definition and Description :
Likewise, a Sonnet is a type of Poem. Just as a novel and a biography fall under the subgenre of books, it falls under the subgenre of Poems. When tracing back to the origin of the word Sonnet we see that it derives from the Italian word Sonetto meaning little song. This form of poem was first invented by Dante and an Italian philosopher named Francisco Petrarch in the 13/14th century. A sonnet is known as a short rhyming poem containing mainly 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme and a specific structure. Yet over the centuries with the evolvement of literature sonnets have emerged in to several types within its own context as well. As a result, by now it contains two types as Petrarchan or Italian Sonnets and Shakespearean or English Sonnets.
