What are the
characteristics of a sonnet?
Length: 14 lines
Meter: iambic pentameter—lines
containing five metrical units, each consisting of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable
Structure
and rhyme scheme: a
strict pattern; the threemost common are known asPetrarchan, ShakespeareanandSpenserian.
Subject: a focus on personal feelings
and thoughts that are lyrical in nature
