Question

A Shakespearean sonnet’s structure contains _____.

A. three couplets and a final rhyming quatrain

B. four quatrains and a final rhyming couplet

C. three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet

D. four couplets and a final rhyming quatrain

Answer 1

A Shakespearean Sonnet's structure contains three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.
The answer is C.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. Three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet

Step-by-step explanation:

The Shakespearean sonnet is a type of poem that includes fourteen verses divided into three quatrains (stanzas with four verses) and a final couplet (stanza with two verses and rhyme). This type of poem structure was name after William Shakespeare who wrote around 150 sonnets with this structure. Additionally, in Shakespearean sonnet it is common a theme or problem is proposed at the beginning and developed in subsequent stanzas and also, stanzas have and abab rhyme scheme. Therefore, the Shakespearan sonnet's structure contains three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.