Question

This type of poem may be either Spenserian or Shakespearean: ______.

sonnet
song
sestet
octet

Answer 1

The correct answer is a sonnet. Shakespeare was known for his common use of (well-written) sonnets in his plays. 

Answer 2

sonnet

Step-by-step explanation:

A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem, and they are two type of structuring them according to the authors that made them famous, Petrarch or Shakespeare.

The Shakespearean sonnet is a fourteen-line poem that is constructed of three quatrians and a qouple, this means thre 4 verses paragraphs, with a two sentence paragraph for a total of 14 verses, and a rhyme scheme of:

abab

cdcd

efef

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