This document provides information about poetic devices used in sonnets, specifically Shakespearean and Petrarchan rhyme schemes, typical topics of love and beauty, and use of iambic pentameter. It defines meter as a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables organized into feet, with iambic pentameter consisting of five iambs per line. Examples of iambic pentameter from Romeo and Juliet are provided, along with a prompt to write one's own sonnet.