Answer:Briefly, they are organized in three quatrains and one couplet.
Explanation:
The English sonnets were poems written by William Shakespeare. He composed 154 sonnets over the period 1592-1598.
They consists of fourteen lines. The first twelve lines make three quatrains (i.e four line stanza). In the third quatrain, the poet generally introduces a problem. That problem will be solved in the last part of his sonnets, which is called the couplet. To sum up, we find three quatrains and a couplet.
The sonnets are composed using an iambic pentameter. This means each line consists of ten syllables, divided into five pairs. There's an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable on each pair. Let's have a look at an example from Sonnet 12:
When I/do count/the clock/that tells/the time
Note that the stressed syllables are in bold.
The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This means that the first and third line rhyme and the second and fourth rhyme. The GG is the couplet and they ryhme.
Only three of his sonnets do not follow the descriptions mentioned above. These are Sonnet 99 with fifteen lines, Sonnet 126 with twelve lines and Sonnet 145 written in iambic tetrameter.
