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Shakespearean Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet What’s the difference?

Shakespearean Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet What’s the difference?. What they have in common. 14 lines Strict rhyme scheme. S pecific structure.

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Shakespearean Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet What’s the difference?

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  1. Shakespearean SonnetPetrarchan SonnetWhat’s the difference?

  2. What they have in common • 14 lines • Strict rhyme scheme. • Specific structure. • Each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times.

  3. Shakespearean Sonnet • Also called Elizabethan Sonnet. • The Shakespearean sonnet is broken down into 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. • The ending couplet of a Shakespearean sonnet usually reverses the tone or message of the previous quatrains. • Rhyme scheme: • ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG

  4. Petrarchan Sonnet • Also called the Italian Sonnet. • The Italian commonly is made up of two quatrains (or octave), followed by two tercets (or sestet). • Thematically, an Italian sonnet most often relates a conflict (whether physical or spiritual) in the first octave, and comes to a solution in the sestet. • Typically, the ninth line creates what is called the "turn" or "volta," which signals the move from proposition to resolution. • The Italian sonnet has a more complex frame work, and has more variations. • The two quatrains usually runs: ABBA-ABBA, or ABAB-BABA, while the second half was either devided into a sestet of CDC-CDC, or a two tercets of CDE-CDE.

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