How many poems did William Shakespeare write?

Shakespeare's Poetry

William Shakespeare wrote five long "narrative" poems:

Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint.

He also wrote 154 shorter poems known as The Sonnets

A sonnet is a particular type of poem consisting of 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter - that is with five stressed sylables in each line. The form is usually three Quatrains or groups of four lines and two, rhyming lines at the end.

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