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A sonnet is a 14 line poem that is usually rhymed. A Spenserian sonnet follows a particular rhyming scheme. The first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth. The tricky part is, the fourth line -also- has to rhyme withe the first line of the next stanza.
A good sonnet should tell a story, with a bit of a twist in the third stanza, and the very last two lines should sort of tell you what the whole thing is all about.
Sonnets were used by Elizabethen poets to show off their manliness, essentially. My guess is this was to compensate for wearing tighty whiteys and ridiculous boots.
The important thing about poetry, like any art, is what it means to you as a viewer, not what it means to the artist. For you, the poem may be about a lost one. For me, it's about a relationship in which person A looks up to person B, person A grows up and no longer worships person B, person B can't cope with that and changes into person A in an effort to keep the relationship going.
That's probably more information than anybody wanted.
Cheers!
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