Write a paragraph describing how Spenser uses the sonnet form to phrase questions that set up the powerful final couplet.

In "My Love is Like to Ice" by Edmund Spenser, Spenser uses the sonnet form to phrase questions that set up the final couplet, however, he does not use the correct sonnet form because he uses the quatrains to ask the questions and the couplet for the answer. In all other sonnets, there are three quatrains and a couplet, but in his sonnet, there is only two quatrains with a three line group and a couplet. Also, his sonnet does not state the problem in the octave and give the resolution in the sestet like all other sonnets. He uses a majority of his sonnet to give the problem found in his questions. He asks three questions per  rhyming group, while taking up 11 lines. The questions set up the powerful couplet where he states the resolution/answer instead of spending 6 lines on it. Because the resolution is only in the couplet, it is more direct and thus powerful. Spenser uses the sonnet form to ask three questions in the first 11 lines to give the powerful resolution in the couplet.