什麽是十四行詩(Sonnet)?
A．意大利式十四行詩：模仿意大利詩人皮特拉克(Petrarch)所創的樣式，由兩部分組成：第壹部分八行(TheOctave)，由的個四行詩體(Quatrains)組成，韻腳是abbaabba；第二部分六行(The Sestet)，韻腳可有不同形式。按嚴格的意大利十四行詩體，在前八行結尾詩意應告壹段落，而後六行又轉入新的詩意。
B．莎士比亞式十四行詩：由三個四行詩體組成，韻腳交替進行。最後是押韻的雙行詩體。整個韻腳是ababcdcdefefgg。在莎士比亞式十四行詩中意境壹氣呵成，直到最後雙行體，為全詩高潮。除莎士比亞外，其他詩人也采用此種形式。
例如:下面這首莎翁的詩的韻腳就是以ababcdcdefefgg這樣來壓韻的!
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.