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What are the 3 rules of a sonnet?

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English sonnets have these rules:

They are fourteen lines long.

The fourteen lines are divided into three groups, or “ stanzas ,” of four lines each, followed by a final two-line “ couplet .” (A four-line stanza is also known as a “ quatrain .” A couplet is two lines together that rhyme.)

Each of the fourteen lines is ten syllables long.

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