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The song or lyric is often in quatrains of iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABBA.
The sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines, usually printed without a stanza break (although the lines are internally grouped).
An epic poem is "much"longer. Thus, I would say: a sonnet is more lyric.
Plus, epic poems can be in free verse -- sonnets can't.
I've always thought of sonnets as being ABAB for the first twelve lines then the last two rhyming with each other. (Three quatrain stanzas with a couplet.)
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