In this lesson, you will learn how to write an English sonnet because this is the most common type of sonnet.
The final couplet has an AA rhyme scheme, meaning that those two lines rhyme with one another.This means that the first and third lines of each stanza rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other.Įach of the three stanzas has an ABAB rhyme scheme.In addition to the number of lines, and the number of syllables per line, sonnets also have a special rhyme scheme: Each of the fourteen lines is ten syllables long.The fourteen lines are divided into three groups, or “ stanzas,” of four lines each, followed by a final two-line “ couplet.” (A four-line stanza is also known as a “ quatrain.” A couplet is two lines together that rhyme.).In poetry, a “ form” is a set of rules describing how to write that kind of poem.
