Sonnets

So according to our school book Retellings there are two types of sonnets, the Shakespearean sonnet, which has three quatrains and a couplet ( which we learned about on Wednesday) And there is a Italian sonnet or Petrarchan sonnet, which has an octave ( a unit of eight lines with repeating rhyme schemes and a sestet ( a unit of six lines with repeating rhyme schemes). Sonnets are set to an iambic pentameter with a particular repeating rhyme scheme ( which I still so not understand.) Here is a video I found that helped me understand it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_pDV07pQg