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A Sonnet is a 14-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter. Typical rhyme schemes are abbaabbaccdccd (Petrarchian) or ababcdcdefefgg (Shakespearean). Shakespeare is credited with 154 of them.

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Q: What is a sonnet and how many did William Shakespeare write?
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