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All of Shakespeare's sonnets were the same length.

By its very nature a Sonnet is only 14 lines long. Shakespeare adhered to what is now called the Elizabethan Sonnet structure. It is composed of three quatrains (four lines with an ABAB rhyme scheme) with a couplet (two ryhming lines, CC) at the end.

Thematically, there is generally a turn at the 9th line, a change in tone, voice or mood of the poem's speaker. The couplet tends to offer resolution or conclusion to the sonnet.

There are several other forms of sonnet, including the Petrachan, or Italian, which is made up of an octet followed by a sestet, or the Spensarian, named after Edmund Spenser, with its own elaborate rhyme scheme.

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