Form and Style
Milton’s Sonnet 18 is a sonnet with an iambic pentameter rhythm scheme with ten syllables per line consisting of 14 lines. Milton's sonnet does not follow the Shakespearean sonnet form, however; it does have three quatrains and finishes with a couplet, this sonnet follows ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD rhyme scheme. In the third quatrain this changes and the poem reveals who is behind the massacre: the “Triple Tyrant," a reference to Pope Innocent III.
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