English questions and answers

Q-What is Sonnet?
Ans-Sonnet- One of the most popular forms, the sonnet has two major styles: English (or Elizabethan or Shakespearean) and Italian (or Petrarchan). Both forms are fourteen lines long and much of the time, focus on love.  Often, the first eight lines of the poem (the first two quatrains in an English sonnet) demonstrate the problem to be solved, and the final six lines (the last quatrain and a couplet in the English sonnet) resolve it. Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. The English sonnet adheres to this rhyme pattern: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, or a variation of it.  The Italian sonnet usually follows this pattern: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. Sometimes the tercets (groups of three lines) vary. These variations can look like: CDC DCD or CDC DDC or CDC EDC. Finally, there is a second form of English sonnet known as the Spenserian sonnet. It rhymes ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. It follows the same basic pattern as the Shakespearean sonnet but varies the rhyme.