[DOC] [TLE] Shakespearean Sonnet Basics: Iambic Pentameter and the English ... [PAR] Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic 
pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. 
... Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. ... Petrarchan sonnet form 
which has two parts: a rhyming octave (abbaabba) and a rhyming sestet (cdcdcd)
. [DOC] [TLE] About the Sonnet - English [PAR] Sonnet: a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic ... (2) 
The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its ... Lyric 
poetry is the most extensive category of verse, especially after the ... This may be 
expressed as a sequence of recurrences in which each line ending on the same 
rhyme... [DOC] [TLE] Couplet - Wikipedia [PAR] A couplet is a pair of lines of metre in poetry. Couplets usually comprise of two 
lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or 
run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-
stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. 
... Similarly, Shakespearean sonnets often employ rhyming couplets at the end... [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Terms Glossary (Reference) - TeacherVision.com [PAR] ... same one-line refrain. Blank verse ... Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a 
couplet. Dactyl ... A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Sonnet Form [PAR] Today, the sonnet remains the most influential and important verse form in the ... 
The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into two main parts, called the octave and the 
sestet. The octave is eight lines long, and typically follows a rhyme scheme of... [DOC] [TLE] Couplet - Definition and Examples of Couplet - Literary Devices [PAR] ... defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same ... 
This is one of the Shakespearean sonnets that contain 14 lines and there is the 
couplet at the end of the poem which usually rhymes and concludes the poem. [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Terms: 40 Brief Definitions [PAR] Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example: ... rhyming lines. Couplets 
end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet. ... Heroic couplet: two successive 
rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; the second line is usually end-stopped. [DOC] [TLE] Shakespearean Verse and Prose [PAR] Meter: a recognizable rhythm in a line of verse consisting of a pattern of ... 
Rhymed verse in Shakespeare's plays is usually in rhymed couplets, i.e. two ... 
the end of a speech or scene in blank verse, in which case it is called a capping 
couplet. [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Forms [PAR] Rhymed verse  Poetry with lines that rhyme; no specific meter; Ex: Everybody ... 
Four lines of iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB, in which each line is end-
stopped. ... Lines 1, 2, and 5 of the poem rhyme and have the same number of 
syllables ... sometimes separated into stanzas; the final lines of an English sonnet 
are a... [DOC] [TLE] Rhyme-schemes, stanza patterns [PAR] Combinations of accentual syllabic verse and rhyme patterns ... The smallest unit 
of rhyming lines is the couplet: two lines (usually of similar length) ... Another 
typical use of tercets is to be found in the last section of the Petrarchan sonnet. ... 
in quatrains is the xaxa pattern where x stands for a blank or unrhymed line-
ending. [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Form - The Sonnet [PAR] Skaldic verse. * ... If the poet writes in the form of the Sicilian Sonnet, Italian (or 
Petrarchan) Sonnet, ... a b b a a b b a     - End words of lines in octet (as in the 
Italian Sonnet). - Volta c c                 - Rhyming couplet for first two lines in sestet. [DOC] [TLE] Verse Forms and Stanza Forms [PAR] The sonnet for instance started its career in English poetry as a love poem. ... 
Under the influence of Shakespeare it became a widely used verse form for ... 
Couplet

Question: 2 lines of rhyming verse at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet
Answer: a couplet