LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Three quatrains and one couplet
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One octave and one sestet
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seven couplet
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Two tercet and two quatrains
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare’s sonnets are composed of 14 lines, and most are divided into three quatrains and a final, concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. This sonnet form and rhyme scheme is known as the ‘English’ sonnet.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three heroic quatrains and a heroic couplet. A heroic quatrain is a group of four lines of iambic pentameter in an ABAB rhyme scheme. A heroic couplet is a group of two lines of iambic pentameter in an AA rhyme scheme. The heroic couplet is the “GG” closing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two separate lines at the poem’s conclusion, normally rhyming and of the same length, are the couplet. Couplets found in sonnets provided an answer to the problem or question presented in the first portion of the poem, or they worked as a general commentary on the poem’s theme.
Detailed explanation-4: -Structure. Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet.