Which of the following is NOT true about a Shakespearean sonnet?. A. It has a predictable rhyme scheme ... B. It has fourteen lines ... C. It uses iambic pentameter ... D. It has one quatrain and three couplets ...

The answer which is not true about a Shakespearean sonnet is D. It has one quatrain and three couplets. In fact, it is quite the opposite - it has three quatrains and one couplet.

All of the other answers are correct when it comes to the Shakespearean sonnet.

Shakespeare’s sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Therefore the answer is D.