Sonnets

Sonnets

• They are usually a fourteen line lyric poem
• Written in Iambic Pentameter
• There are two types: Petrachan and Shakespearian
• Petrachan - there are two main parts called the octet (8 lines) and the sestet (6 lines). The octet and sestet are usually contrasted in some kind of way for example: the octet may ask a question which the sestet might answer or a volta occurs at the…