Question

What is a true statement about a Shakespearean sonnet? The third quatrain shows a change in mood from the first two quatrains. The third quatrain shows a reversal of thought from the first two quatrains. The final couplet restates the main idea of the poem. The final couplet reverses the ideas of the three quatrains.

Answer 1

The final couplet reverses the ideas of the three quatrains.

Step-by-step explanation:

Just look at some examples:

"Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,

They draw but what they see, know not the heart." (Sonnet 24)

"Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,

As with your shadow I with these did play." (Sonnet 98)

"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare." (Sonnet 130)

As is seen in these couplets, they reverse the ideas of their sonnets. The conjunction yet is used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been said.

Answer 2

The final couplet reverses the ideas of the three quatrains

Step-by-step explanation:

The option that is a true statement about a Shakespearean sonnet is the final couplet reverses the ideas of the three quatrains. A sonnet is a fourteen lines poem. Shakespearean sonnets are divided into four parts the three first quatrains and a final couplet. The quatrains are four lines long with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEF. The couplet is two lines long with a rhyme scheme GG. The first three quatrains establish some idea or ideas and the final couplet reverses these ideas.