Read the third quatrain of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130."

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

In order to follow the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet correctly, what must follow this quatrain?

a sestet

an octave

a fourth quatrain

a rhyming couplet

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Rhys Vasquez

28 February, 17:38

Read the third quatrain of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130."

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

In order to follow the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet correctly, what must follow this quatrain?

a sestet

an octave

a fourth quatrain

a rhyming couplet

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Evan Gilmore · Answer 1

I believe the correct answer is a rhyming couplet.

In a Shakespearean sonnet, there are fourteen lines. First twelve lines are divided into three quatrains (four lines each) which are followed by the final two rhyming lines, called the couplet. In the three quatrains the poet establishes the theme and in the couplet the theme is resolved.