Shakespearean+Sonnet



Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Simple, Pivot Requirement A sonnet is a fourteen line poem that has a pivot. The Shakespearean or English sonnet is not traditionally broken into the octave and the sestet as strongly as the Petrarchan version. There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that occurs in the Shakespearean sonnet somewhere between the eighth and thirteenth line. Henrry Howard, Earl of Surrey English 14 14
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A Shakespearean Sonnet comprise of a total collection of 154 poems written in sonnet form by William Shakespeare that deal with themes such as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. A Shakespearean Sonnet consists of 14 lines with a ryhming scheme of //abab cdcd efef gg.// He basically saves the main idea until the end of the sonnet.


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SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair some time declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.