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  2. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. [1] The term derives from the Italian word sonetto (lit.

  3. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The sonnets cover such themes as the passage of time, love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty and mortality. The first 126 are addressed to a young man; the last 28 are either addressed to, or refer to, a woman. (Sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim.)

  4. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The beginnings of the sequences usually contain sonnets that “introduce characters, plot, and themes”. [3] The commencing sonnets suggest an account of the birth of a love “experience” [4] and hopefully foresee a happy ending. However, there is often also a sense of knowing the actual outcome of the sequence.

  5. Crown of sonnets - Wikipedia

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    A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme.Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line.

  6. Sonnet 81 - Wikipedia

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    The tomb's monument is the sonnet itself, which, in the way of tombstones, will be read by generations in the future. Line 11 ("And tongues to be your being shall rehearse”) contains a morbid pun as it envisions the re-reading of an epitaph to be like a re-burial (“re-hearse").

  7. English Romantic sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Wordsworth's Miltonic manner of a few years later is announced in "London, 1802", where the spirit of the poet is appealed to as the necessary remedy to the race of "selfish men" of his time. The sonnet is written in the Petrarchan form and was subsequently collected among the "Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty" written in ...

  8. Sonnet 77 - Wikipedia

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    This sonnet makes use of the rhetorical device termed correlatio, which involves a listing and correlating of significant objects, and which was perhaps overused in English sonnets. The objects here are a mirror, a time piece and a notebook, each representing a way towards self-improvement for the young man as poet.

  9. Sonnet 2 - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Sonnet 2 is the second procreation sonnet. Shakespeare looks ahead to the time when the youth will have aged, and uses this as an argument to urge him to waste no time. It urges the young man to have a child and thereby protect himself from reproach by preserving his beauty against Time's destruction.