A Sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. It traditionally consists of three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets are two popular forms in English poetry.
What is the poem? There are many genres of poems such as Ballad, Sonnet or epic.
All sonnets are poems.
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Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, Sonnet XVIII. All the sonnets are known only by numbers so one could as easily say Sonnet 1, Sonnet 2, Sonnet 3 and Sonnet 4. Those are certainly four of Shakespeare's poems.
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He wrote many poems as well as play and two long narrative scripts. Usually he wrote sonnets and it is believed he most enjoyed writing sonnets. He wrote 154 sonnets and called each of them Sonnet 1, Sonnet 2, Sonnet 3 etc. so it's easy to identify his poems. Most poems talk about a "dark lady" who was a secret love of his life. All of his poems relate to a specific topic but mostly about love and life.
No, Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is not an elegy. It is a Shakespearean sonnet that talks about the enduring nature of true love. Elegies are poems that lament the loss of someone or something.