What is a sonnet?
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What is a sonnet?

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In the English language, a sonnet is a poem comprised of 14 lines.  The most commonly known sonnets written by William Shakespeare contain 12 lines of iambic pentameter followed by a couplet.  The couplet usually rhymes.