![]() ![]() There are also humorous twists on the expected approach. Love, beauty, and death are common recurring themes in the sonnets, but there are occasional forays into tangential topics like lust, infidelity, and immortality through poetry. ![]() ![]() CDCDCD.) As with all rules of poetry, there is the occasional exceptions taken here and there. (It’s also called English Rhyme, and is differentiated from Petrarchan Rhyme which has an octave of ABBA ABBA and a sestet that can vary, e.g. In English language sonnets (and Shakespeare’s, in particular) that metering is iambic pentameter (five feet of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.) Shakespeare’s sonnets follow a rhyme scheme that is often named for him: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. It’s also not the entire contents of that 1609 quarto, which also included a long-form narrative poem entitled “The Lover’s Complaint.” However, these are the poems typically included in collections of Shakespearean sonnets.įor those unfamiliar with the sonnet, it’s a 14-line poem that’s metered and rhymed. It’s not all of the sonnets written by Shakespeare because there were a few stashed in his plays. This book consists of 154 sonnets that were published in a quarto dated 1609. The Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare ![]()
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