sonnet vs stanza

sonnet

noun
  • A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. 

verb
  • To compose sonnets. 

  • To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about. 

stanza

noun
  • A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. 

  • An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP. 

  • An apartment or division in a building. 

  • A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic. 

  • A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided. 

How often have the words sonnet and stanza occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )