Question

Write a sonnet using the traditional Shakespearean sonnet form.

Answer 1

sonnet is a fourteen line poem.

A Shakespearean sonnet is a variation on the Italian sonnet tradition. The form evolved in England during and around the time of the Elizabethan era. These sonnets are sometimes referred to as Elizabethan sonnets or English sonnets.

Shakespearean sonnets feature the following elements:

They are fourteen lines long.

The fourteen 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.

The sonnet then concludes with a two-line subgroup, and these two lines rhyme with each other.

There are typically ten syllables per line, which are phrased in iambic pentameter.