Saturday, November 9, 2013

Sonnet Analysis #1

  • Sonnets come from the Italian word meaning little sound; little song.
  • A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
  • A Petrarch is divided into an octect and a sixtect.
  • A Shakespearian is divided into three quatrians and a cuplet.

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