Sonnets

Original souce material:

Notes

Shakesperean sonnet structure

-3 quatrains (stanzas)

-1 couplet (stanza with two lines)

-14 lines in total

The Rhyme scheme of a Shakesperean Sonnet looks like this

-they also follow iambic pentameter, a poetic rhythm with five "feet" per line, each foot being an "iamb"—two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed (da-DUM), totaling ten syllables per line, mimicking a heartbeat and common in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets

Petrarchan sonnet:

-has an Octave (stanza 8 lines)-follows ABBA rhy,e sche,e

-has a Sestet (stanza 6 lines)

-also have imabic pentameter

-also fourteen lines in total