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A 2.5 page paper which examines its type, the two major parts of sonnet function, stylistic elements such as metaphors and imagery, and theme. No additional sources are used.
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structure defined by Francisco Petrarch, the father of the sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet is comprised of fourteen lines. First, there is an octave or a verse consisting of
eight lines that feature a rhyme scheme of abba abba; then a sestet or six lines conclude the poem that typically exhibit the rhyme pattern of cde cde. Leave
it to William Shakespeare to defy established literary convention. He is credited with developing a unique type of sonnet that has become known as the Elizabethan or English sonnet.
These sonnets are also fourteen lines in length, but are structured differently. These types are usually structured as three quatrains or three groups of four lines each with
the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, and then concludes with a gg couplet. One of William Shakespeares most popular sonnets, "Sonnet 130" is obviously an Elizabethan or English
sonnet, as evidenced by its composition: 1 My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; 2 Coral is far more red than her lips red; 3
If snow be white, why her breasts are dun; 4 If hairs be wires, black wires grow from her head. 5 I have seen roses damasked,
red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes is there more delight 8 Than
in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 9 I love to hear her speak, yet well I know 10 That music hath a far more pleasing
sound; 11 I grant I never saw a goddess go; 12 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. 13 And yet, by heaven, I think
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