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Sonnets

Sonnets. The Sonnet is one of the most popular and well-known poetic forms. Dating as far back as the middle Ages , it has undergone several permutations of structure and use, evolving into the several variations of form and themes we have today. Origins.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets The Sonnet is one of the most popular and well-known poetic forms. Dating as far back as the middle Ages, it has undergone several permutations of structure and use, evolving into the several variations of form and themes we have today.

  2. Origins The sonnet is believed to come from medieval songs.

  3. Structure 14 lines * Iambic Pentameter * static rhyme scheme

  4. Common Themes Although love is the overarching theme of the sonnets, there are three specific underlying themes: the brevity of life the transience of beauty the trappings of desire

  5. Types Italian (Petrarchan) Structure: Rhymes abbaabba cdecde using an octave and a sestet. Elizabethan (Shakesperean) Structure: Three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg Spenserian Structure: Rhymes abab bcbc cdcd ee

  6. First known Englishman to use the Italian sonnet form Sir Tomas Wyatt: 1503-1542 The Italian sonnet is commonly is made up of two quatrains (or octave), followed by two tercets (or sestet). Rhyme Scheme: The two quatrains usually runs: ABBA-ABBA, or ABAB-BABA, while the second half was either divided into a sestet of CDC-CDC, or a two tercets of CDE-CDE.

  7. Wrote 154 sonnets William Shakespeare 1564-1616 The Shakespearean sonnet is broken down into 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme scheme usually runs: ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-gg

  8. Better-known for authoring 'The Book of the Faerie Queen', a poetical allegory Edmund Spenser: 1552-1599 Edmund Spenser divided his sonnets into three quatrains and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: ABAB-BCBC-CDCD-ee

  9. The End

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