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Outline two features of a Shakespearean sonnet that you can identify

Outline two features of a Shakespearean sonnet that you can identify-example-1
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They are fourteen lines long.

The fourteen lines are divided into four subgroups.

The first three subgroups have four lines each, which makes them “quatrains,” with the second and fourth lines of each group containing rhyming words.

The sonnet then concludes with a two-line subgroup, and these two lines rhyme with each other.

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