Sonnets:

1. Sonnets: Petrarchan/ Italian vs. Shakespearean/ English

2. The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet: This is the oldest form. 1) Two quatrains (four lines each): This is called the Octave (8) This part usually poses a question.2) ending with two tercets (three lines that rhyme. This is called the sestet (6) this part usually answers the question.3) Rhyme scheme of : ABBA ABBA CCC DDD

3. The English or Shakespearean Sonnet: • Has three four line units or quatrains. These often express related ideas or examples • Followed by a couplet (2 lines). This often sums up the poet’s conclusion or message. • The rhyme scheme is usually: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

4. SONNET 146Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, A [ ] these rebel powers that thee array; BWhy dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, APainting thy outward walls so costly gay? BWhy so large cost, having so short a lease, CDost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? DShall worms, inheritors of this excess, CEat up thy charge? is this thy body's end? DThen soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, EAnd let that pine to aggravate thy store; FBuy terms divine in selling hours of dross; EWithin be fed, without be rich no more: FSo shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, GAnd Death once dead, there's no more dying then. G