sonnet
Shakespeare's sonnets are largely written in iambic pentameter. This topic is part of Poetry within Literature. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
sonnet trivia questions
A Shakespearean sonnet ends with what?
Answer: Rhyming couplet
Bonus fact: Its structure is three quatrains followed by a couplet.
What meter is strongly associated with English sonnets?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
Bonus fact: Shakespeare's sonnets are largely written in iambic pentameter.
What meter is strongly associated with Shakespeare's sonnets?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
Bonus fact: Shakespearean sonnets are typically written in iambic pentameter.
Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bonus fact: The sequence contains 44 love sonnets.
Which famous line begins Sonnet 43?
Answer: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Bonus fact: Sonnet 43 is the best-known poem in the sequence.
A traditional sonnet has how many lines?
Answer: 14
Bonus fact: The sonnet originated in Italy and developed several major rhyme schemes.
A poem with 14 lines is commonly called what?
Answer: Sonnet
Bonus fact: Traditional sonnets have 14 lines.
Who wrote the poem Ozymandias?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bonus fact: Shelley's sonnet was published in 1818.