Shakespearean Sonnet: A twist on the sonnet…Shakespeare’s sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. Usually, the third quatrain will alter the general direction the poem is taking, and the rhyming couplet (two rhymed lines of poetry) will sum it all up.
rhyme scheme (the breakdown of how the poem rhymes) = abab cdcd efef gg
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are usually written in Iambic Pentameter.
See pg. 251 of your text for this information.
