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A 5 page paper which provides a critical analysis of Sonnet 130. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGmiseye.rtf
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Petrarch, a fourteenth-century Italian poet who wrote a series of poems to his lover, Laura. The traditional Petrarch style, which was usually followed by subsequent poets, was comprised of
a specific rhythm pattern known as an iambic pentameter, which is usually five iambs (on unstressed syllable followed by an emphasized syllable) per line (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form).
There was also a definitive sonnet rhyme scheme, which although could vary from one to the other, traditionally in the Petrarch sonnet was abbaabba cddcee (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form).
Also, the Petrarch sonnet stanzas are usually comprised of 14 lines -- one octave of eight lines and a sestet of six lines (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form).
However, all convention was thrown to the wind when William Shakespeare began completely dominating English literature during the Elizabethan era. He enjoyed the sonnet, but he wanted to infuse
it with a style that was uniquely his own creation. This is particularly evident in Shakespeares Sonnet 130, also referred to as "My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the
Sun," in which he wrote: 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;
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