The answer is letter B. An Italian sonnet has only two quatrains while the English or the Shakespearean sonnet has three. Both sonnets have 14 rhyming lines,the iambic pentameter and both followed rhyme scheme.
A sonnet is a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of
equal length. In English, it is called iambic pentameters, hendecasyllables in
Italian and alexandrines in French.
An Italian sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet constitutes
an 8-line “octave” of two quatrains. It is rhymed abbaabba which is followed by a 6-line”sestet” (usually) rhymed cdcdcd
or cdecde.
On the other hand, an English sonnet or the Shakespearean
sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet which is rhymed ababcdcdefefgg. Of all sonnets, the
English sonnets has the most flexible pattern but has the simplest.
