Sonnet
 About
 Brief
sonnet
History about sonnet
 Shakespearean
Sonnet
About sonnet
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Form of poetry, has 14 lines
with a specific rhyme
scheme
Topic of sonnets written in
Shakespeare's time is love-or a theme related to love
usually written as part of a
series, with each sonnet a
sequel to the previous one,
although many sonnets
could stand alone as
separate poems.
Brief history of sonnet
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The sonnet originated in Sicily in the
13th Century with Giacomo da
Lentino (1188-1240), a lawyer. The
poetic traditions of the Provençal
region of France apparently
influenced him, but he wrote his
poems in the Sicilian dialect of Italian.
Some authorities credit another
Italian, Guittone d'Arezzo (12301294), with originating the sonnet.
The English word "Sonnet" comes
from the Italian word "sonetto,"
meaning "little song." Some early
sonnets were set to music, with
accompaniment provided by a lute.
Brief Introduction of Sonnet
The Italian poet Petrarch (13041374), a Roman Catholic priest,
popularized the sonnet .
 The format of Petrarch's sonnets
differs from that of Shakespeare.
Petrarch's sonnets each consist of
an eight-line stanza (octave) and a
six-line stanza (sestet). The first
stanza presents a theme, and the
second stanza develops it. The
rhyme scheme is as follows:
(1) first stanza (octave): ABBA, ABBA;
(2) second stanza (sestet): CDE,
CDE.
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Sonnet Came to England
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The sonnet form was introduced in
England by Sir Thomas Wyatt (15031542) and Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey (1517-1547). They translated
Italian sonnets into English and
wrote sonnets of their own. Surrey
introduced blank verse into the
English language in his translation of
the Aeneid of Vergil. Wyatt and
Surrey sometimes replaced
Petrarch's scheme of an eight-line
stanza and a six-line stanza with
three four-line stanzas and a two-line
conclusion known as a couplet.
Shakespeare adopted the latter
scheme in his sonnets.
Shakespearean Sonnets
William Shakespeare wrote 154
sonnets, among which he
addresses Sonnets 1 through
126 to an unidentified young
man with outstanding physical
and intellectual attributes . In
Sonnets 127 through 154,
Shakespeare devotes most of
his attention to addressing a
mysterious "dark lady" .
The rhyming pattern
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The Shakespearean sonnet (also called
the English sonnet) has three four-line
stanzas (quatrains) and a two-line unit
called a couplet. A couplet is always
indented; both lines rhyme at the end.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The meter of Shakespeare's sonnets is
iambic pentameter (except in Sonnet
145). The rhyming lines in each stanza
are the first and third and the second
and fourth. In the couplet ending the
poem, both lines rhyme. All of
Shakespeare's sonnets follow the same
rhyming pattern
Iambic Pentameter
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets (and
many of the lines in his plays) in
iambic pentameter,
 a technical term for a poetry pattern
in which each line has 10 syllables,
beginning with an unstressed
syllable and a stressed syllable,
followed by another pair of
unstressed and stressed syllables,
and so on--until there are five pairs
of syllables (or ten syllables in all) .
But, soft! what light through yonder
window breaks?
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Sonnet 18
Quatrain 1 (four-line stanza)
A Shall I compare thee to a
summer’s Day?
B Thou art more lovely and more
temper ATE :
A Rough winds do shake the
darling buds of MAY,
B And summer's lease hath all
too short a DATE :
Sonnet 18
Quatrain 2 (four-line stanza)
C Sometime too hot the eye of
heaven SHINES,
D And often is his gold complexion
DIMM'D;
C And every fair from fair sometime de
CLINES,
D By chance or nature's changing
course un TRIMM'D;
Sonnet 18
Quatrain 3 (four-line stanza)
E But thy eternal summer shall
not FADE ,
F Nor lose possession of that
fair thou OWEST ,
E Nor shall Death brag thou
wander'st in his SHADE ,
F When in eternal lines to time
thou GROWEST ;
Sonnet 18
Couplet (two rhyming lines)
G
So long as men can
breathe ,or eyes can SEE;
G So long lives this, and this
gives life to THEE .
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a
date;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’ rest in his
shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to
thee.
Thank You
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Zhong Zhirong