verse vs sonnet

verse and sonnet both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
verse	Yes	No	Yes	No
sonnet	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, sonnet is a hyponym of verse; that is, sonnet is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than verse:

Other hyponyms of verse include metrify, spondaise, spondaize, elegise, elegize.

verse (noun)	sonnet (noun)
a piece of poetry	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
a line of metrical text
literature in metrical form

verse (verb)	sonnet (verb)
familiarize through thorough study or experience	compose a sonnet
compose verses or put into verse	praise in a sonnet