Question

What was Shakespeare's first poem?

• A. The Rape of Lucrece
• B. Sonnets
• C. Venus and Adonis
• D. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Venus and Adonis

• Shakespeare has 37 plays and 154 sonnets

• Sonnet rhyme scheme – abab cdcd efef gg

• Sonnet 1 to 126 seem to be addressed to a young man- Mr.WH , 127 to 154 -a woman- the dark lady