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With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the stylistic form of the English sonnet—the rhyme scheme, the 14 lines, and the metre. But, Shakespeare's sonnets introduce significant departures of content. [2]
Shakespeare's funerary monument. The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical consolidation—by renovating the inherited material—and artistic expressiveness—by covering a wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones.
The title page of the first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets departs from the norm in addressing more than one person in its course, male as well as female. In addition, other sonnets by him were incorporated into some of his plays. Another exception at this time was the form used in Edmund Spenser's ...
Sonnet 125 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg, although (as discussed below) in this case the f rhymes repeat the sound of the a rhymes.
Sonnet 100 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of ...
Sonnet 17 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, consisting of three quatrains followed by a couplet.It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.Sonnet 17 is written in iambic pentameter, a form of meter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Shakespeare's sonnets "almost always consist of fourteen rhyming iambic-pentameter lines", [14] arranged in three quatrains followed by a couplet, with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. [15] Sonnet 15 also contains a volta , or shift in the poem's subject matter, beginning with the third quatrain.
Sonnet 60 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme, abab cdcd efef gg and is written a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The thirteenth line ...