SONNET ETYMOLOGY

A sonnet is very tough to create
Composed of iambs, and fourteen lines long
The sounds unstressed, then stressed, and alternate
This took an hour but I still did it wrong.

It is from Italian, through the word
Sonetto, meaning "a miniature song"
And beyond Latin sonus, it's all blurred;
Proto-Italic helped the word along.

The best hope is the reconstruction swen
Which we think had to do with "noise" or "sound".
Well, sonnet's usage peaked ​with Shakespeare, then
It tapered off but is still used around.

Although very difficult to produce,
This etymology's neat, I deduce.