William Shakespeare Sonnets Quiz

Which sonnet expresses regret and comfort through friendship?

Which sonnet includes the line “Love’s not Time’s fool”?

Which sonnet is written as a mocking of idealized beauty?

What is the rhyme scheme of a typical Shakespearean sonnet?

Who is often referred to as the “Fair Youth” in the sonnets?

Which sonnet compares love to the permanence of poetry?

Which sonnet begins “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced”?

Which sonnet speaks of the endless march of time?

What year were Shakespeare’s sonnets first published?

Which sonnet begins “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”?

Which sonnet is known for its theme of constancy in love?

Which sonnet explores the idea of the poet’s verse outliving death?

Which sonnet focuses on lust and desire leading to shame?

Which sonnet contains the line “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”?

Which sonnet opens with “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”?

Which sonnet explores the theme of poetry’s immortality?

What type of poem is a Shakespearean sonnet?

Which sonnet contains the line “So are you to my thoughts as food to life”?

What is the meter used in Shakespeare’s sonnets?

What are the three main subjects of the sonnets?

Which sonnet ends with “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”?

What is the main theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnets?

Which sonnet begins “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”?

Which sonnet begins with “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Which sonnet begins “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”?

Which sonnet begins “Tired with all these, for restful death I cry”?

Who is the “Dark Lady” in the sonnets?

Which sonnet uses imagery of aging and twilight?

How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

Which sonnet speaks of love surviving “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”?