Here is some help for people that are wondering what is a sonnet and form? Lets see, hummm, a sonnet? I haven't written a sonnet since, hummm, I can't remember. Anyway, there are two kinds of sonnets. Italian and English, also known as Petrarchan and Shakespearean. The Petrarchans first eight lines are called an octave with a rhyming scheme of abbaabba. and the next six lines are called a sestet with a rhyming scheme of cdcdcd. The English sonnet has three quatrains of abab, cdcd, efef, followed by a couplet gg. And then there is Edmund Spencer, And me, I will write a Sonneet.