Shakespearean sonnets have 14 lines, and the majority of them are broken up into three quatrains and a final, concluding couplet that rhymes with abab cdcd efef gg. The "English" sonnet is a type of sonnet with this rhyme pattern.
The sonnets touch on a variety of subjects, including time passing, love, betrayal, resentment, beauty, and mortality. The first 126 are addressed to young men, while the latter 28 are either directed towards or make reference to women.
(Sonnets 138 and 144 were first released in the 1599 anthology The Passionate Pilgrim). Shakespearean sonnets typically have three quatrains, followed by a couplet, and are composed in iambic pentameter.
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