Sonnet Analysis #1

Sonnets

Sonnetto- little song or sound in Italian

There are two types of sonnets both composed of 14 lines

Petrarch/Italian

• Composed of an octet (8 lines) and a sextet (6 lines)

Shakespearean

• Composed of three quatrains (4 lines) and one couplet (2 lines)
• the last two words in each line of the couplet rhyme making it easy to identify as Shakespearean