I have a bit of an introduction to this poem and I know you're probably worried I'm going to talk forever, but worry not. What I am about to read is a sonnet so it is a short 16 or 18 lines ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme ...

These sonnets don’t have all the elements of typical sonnets, such as rhyme and meter, but they have the usual 14 lines and a volta, or turn, in the penultimate stanza.