What is a sonnet?

Question:Purpose?
Subject and Theme?
Tone?
Rhyme and Rhythm?
Lines and Stanzas?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Purpose?
Subject and Theme?
Tone?
Rhyme and Rhythm?
Lines and Stanzas?

--? Purpose: Varies, but often the purpose of a sonnet is to praise.

Subject & Theme: Can vary; many sonnets are written about love.

Tone: Usually formal and serious.

Rhyme & Rhythm: Has a definite rhyme scheme. The type of rhyme scheme a sonnet has places it into an even smaller category of Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets or Shakespearean (English) sonnets [abbaabbacdecde or abbaabbacdcdcd].

Lines & Stanzas: All sonnets have fourteen lines. Petrarchan sonnets have to stanzas: an octet (eight-line stanza) followed by a sextet (six-line stanza). Shakespearean sonnets have four stanzas: three quatrains (four-line stanzas) followed by a couplet (a pair of lines that can function as a stanza).

Purpose: no clue
Subject/theme: Anything
Tone: Anything
Rhyme and rhythym: I believe the rhyme scheme is ABCB but i'm not sure.
Lines/stanzas: 14 lines, 3 quatrains and 1 couplet.

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Purpose:states poet's personal feelings
Rhyme and Rhythm:Shakespearean sonnet follows the abab/cdcd/efef/gg rhyme scheme
Lines and Stanzas: fourteen-line poem--each line is 10 syllables in length and every other syllable is stressed, beginning with the second syllable

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