Post on 14-May-2020
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• Written in iambic pentameter- each line has 5 feet. Each foot or iamb consists of an unstressed syllable (breve) and a stressed syllable (ictus).
• The rhythm of iambic pentameter resembles a heartbeat.
• Sonnets have a set rhyme scheme
• Sonnets are a means of expressing something emotional.
• Sonnets present a problem and offer a solution or explore an issue and make a comment about it. The solution or comment is expressed in the couplet (last two lines of the sonnet.)
• Has 3 quatrains (groups of 4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines)
• The couplet gives meaning to the sonnet as a whole.
Spenserian Rhyme Scheme (interlocking rhyme scheme)!
Quatrain 1-abab Quatrain 2-bcbc Quatrain 3-cdcd Couplet-ee
2. Shakespearean Sonnet- Shakespeare was the master of this sonnet form. He wrote 154 sonnets.
• Like the Spenserian sonnet, the Shakespearean sonnet has 3 quatrains and a couplet.