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Sonnets This article aims to give you an outline of sonnets, including what they are, their history and some examples of the different kinds of sonnet.  Hopefully along the way you'll pick up some tips to help you write sonnets (or write better sonnets!). What is a sonnet? Sonnets feature: Fourteen linesFixed metreFixed rhyme schemeA shift in mood or perspective during the poem Sonnets are short poems which traditionally have 14 lines, a fixed metre and a fixed rhyme scheme. Despite, or perhaps because of, the formal constraints of sonnets, they often deal with themes of emotions, love, and freedom. The name ‘sonnet’ comes fro