If it is square, It's a sonnet

Well as the brighter of you may perceive, i have been away for awhile. 

so to get over and done with this cruddy thing... Here goes: 

Sonnets , 14 lines 

common ever since the Renaissance 

No other poem is so versatile and ubiquitous and agreeable as the sonnet 

Geometry of the poem, square like 

READ the poem first, BEFORE any stylistic analysis

images, and the musicality of the language, idea, content, wordplay 

Sonnet - merely a form 

2 MAIN TYPES - Pentrachan and Shakespearean 

PENTACHAN 

rhyme scheme that ties the octave (8) together followed by a sestet (6) 

and if you are really poor in maths yes that is 14 lines 

SHAKESPEAREAN 

divided into quatrains and  there is a rhyming couplet at the end 

Count how many sentences there are in the poem

often it follows the basic pattern of 8/6 : leaving us to 2 sentences 

POEMS- Arranged in lines, written in sentences 

Blank Sonnet - unrhyming lines

MAIN POINT : READ FIRST DISSECT LATER !!!!

So... Poetry is rather simple... if your brain is slightly warped like most lit students are. 

Sign off... Botti