What is a sonnet ? What are the types and qualities of sonnets? Sonnets | Petrarchan sonnet | Shakespearean sonnet

 Sonnets 


Introduction

  • What is a sonnet ?
        Basically a sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in Iambic pentameter.

  • What are the types of sonnets ?
        There are two types of sonnets; Petrarchan and Shakespearean.

Features of two sonnet types 




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