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Select all the following elements that characterize a poem as a Shakespearean Sonnet:

a) A rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

b) 11 or 7 syllables per line

c) A rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde or abbaabba cdcdcd

d) The three quatrains express related ideas, and the couplet (volta) sums up the poet’s conclusion or message

e) Three four-line stanzas, or groups of lines, called quatrains followed by a concluding two-line stanza called a couplet

f) 10 syllables per line in Iambic Pentameter

Answer :

  1. 10 syllables per line in Iambic Pentameter

Lambic pentameter is must.

  1. A rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg
  2. Three four-line stanzas, or groups of lines, called quatrains followed by a concluding two-line stanza called a couplet

Usually couplets followed backwards

Option A,E,F are correct

Answer:

Explanation:

The following elements that characterize a poem as a Shakespearean Sonnet:

a) A rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

d)The three quatrains express relates ideas, and the couplet (volta) sums up the poet’s conclusion or message

e)Three four-line stanzas, or groups of lines, called quatrains followed by a concluding two-line stanza called a couplet

f) 10 syllables per line in Iambic Pentameter

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