fourteen lines
What sonnets contain
Fourteen lines is the standard length of a sonnet, the most celebrated fixed form in English poetry.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in discussions of poetic form: A sonnet consists of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare's sonnets and Petrarch's before him established the form's enduring prestige.
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- poetic formVerse's structural template
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- verseMetered poetic passage
- Shakespearean sonnetFourteen-line poem, ABAB pattern
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poetic form and structure
fourteen linesfree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
prose poetry · prose · long poem · stream of consciousness · blank verse
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