How does the structure of shakespeare's sonnets affect the content of the poem?

a. it requires that the sonnets speak of idealized love.

b. the final couplet must restate the meaning of the three quatrains.

c. it follos the same rhyme scheme throughout.

d. there is a change in mood from the quantrains to the final couplet

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Arthur Franklin

7 May, 17:11

How does the structure of shakespeare's sonnets affect the content of the poem?

a. it requires that the sonnets speak of idealized love.

b. the final couplet must restate the meaning of the three quatrains.

c. it follos the same rhyme scheme throughout.

d. there is a change in mood from the quantrains to the final couplet

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Alma Jenkins · Answer 1

The correct answer is D. There is a change in mood from the quatrains to the final couplet. This is common in the English sonnet that the final couplet is used to change the mood and add new meaning to what was previously said, thus being a sort of a peak for the sonnet.