LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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specific rhyme scheme
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12-lines
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ending couplet
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turn or shift in thought
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Detailed explanation-1: -Structure. Sonnet 12 follows the structure of a typical Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of 14 lines of which 12 belong to three quatrains and the last two belong to the couplet, with rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Detailed explanation-2: -In a traditional “English” or “Shakespearean” sonnet, the first twelve lines are divided into three groups ("stanzas") of four lines each, called “quatrains". The last two lines usually rhyme, and make up a “rhymed couplet” that concludes the poem by summing up the story told in the previous quatrains.
Detailed explanation-3: -A sonnet is a short lyric poem that consists of 14 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter (a 10-syllable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and following a specific rhyme scheme (of which there are several-we’ll go over this point more in just a moment).
Detailed explanation-4: -They have fourteen lines. They have a rhyme scheme. They are written in iambic pentameter.