What is Shakespeare's Sonnets?
[[File:Sonnets1609titlepage.jpg|thumb|Title page, 1609]] '''Shakespeare's Sonnets''' is the title of a collection of 154 [[sonnet]]s written by [[William Shakespeare]]. The collection was first published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. In general, each sonnet is in [[iambic pentameter]], and consists of three [[quatrain]]s followed by a concluding [[couplet]]. The sonnets are about love, death, jealousy, procreation, beauty, etc. {{William Shakespeare|state=collapsed}} [[Category:Poems by William Shakespeare]] [[Category:17th-century English poems]] [[Category:1600s books]] {{lit-stub}}