ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A sonnet consists of 14 lines. Shakespearean sonnets are typically governed by the following rules: The 14 lines are divided into four subgroups. The first three subgroups have four lines each, which makes them “quatrains, ” with the second and fourth lines of each group containing rhyming words.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sonnet. A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Petrarchan sonnets have 14 lines-divided into an octave and a sestet-that follow the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDCCDC or ABBA ABBA CDECDE.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “sonnet” is derived from the Italian word sonetto (lit. “little song", derived from the Latin word sonus, meaning a sound). By the 13th century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that followed a strict rhyme scheme and structure.

Detailed explanation-5: -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).