Answer:
Option A. The first thing to focus the first time a sonnet is read is the rhyme scheme.
Explanation:
A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. Traditionally written in Iambic Pentameter, the common kinds are Petrarchan or Italian sonnet and the Shakespearean sonnet. The difference lies in their rhyme scheme.
Before understanding the structure in detail, it is essential to identify the type of sonnet as structure involves other characteristics of the poem.
Once the type of sonnet is understood, taking clues from the rhyme scheme, other things can be easily understood keeping in mind other characteristics of the different types of sonnets.
Moreover, poetry is first to be enjoyed and then understood. Sonnet has its origin in the Italian word ‘sonnetto’ meaning ‘a little sound or song’.
