Which of the following describes the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
one octet followed by a sestet
three quatrains and a couplet
five lines of fourteen syllables
fourteen lines that follow an AB rhyme scheme

Answer + Explanation:

A Shakespearean sonnet is a variation of a sonnet poem popularized, but not invented, by William Shakespeare. The sonnet is a 14-line poem first translated into English by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century. By Shakespeare’s time, it came to have a distinct rhyming structure of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet for a finale.

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