Which of the following describes the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?

one octet followed by a sestet

three quatrains and a couplet

five lines of fourteen syllables

fourteen lines that follow an AB rhyme scheme

Answer + Explanation:

A Shakespearean sonnet is a variation of a sonnet poem popularized, but not invented, by William Shakespeare. The sonnet is a 14-line poem first translated into English by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century. By Shakespeare's time, it came to have a distinct rhyming structure of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet for a finale.