What are the features of an English sonnet?

A. any number of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter on any subject matter

B. a fourteen-line poem using iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme

C. a fourteen-line poem using rhyme and written in praise of a loved one

D. a Latin verse form written in iambic meter about a natural event

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Jacob Shepherd

English

17 January, 08:21

What are the features of an English sonnet?

A. any number of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter on any subject matter

B. a fourteen-line poem using iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme

C. a fourteen-line poem using rhyme and written in praise of a loved one

D. a Latin verse form written in iambic meter about a natural event

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Desmond Livingston · Answer 1

The features of an English sonnet is that it is a fourteen lined prom written in an iambic pentameter with the addition of a specific rhyme scheme (contains three quatrains and the scheme goes abab, cdcd, efef). So that means that B is the correct answer.