Word sonnet

A word sonnet is a relatively new variation of the traditional form of the sonnet. In essence, it is a fourteen-line poem, with one word set for each line. Concise and usually visual in effect, this "miniature" version can contain one or more sentences, as the articulation requires.

If the fourteen words of a word sonnet consist of seventeen syllables in an observation about a fleeting moment often involving nature, the poem simultaneously becomes a variation on the Japanese haiku form.