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 </div><p>Today’s we’ll be discussing a classic form, an intricate formal poetic-dance with precise rhythm and fixed step — sonnets.</p>
<p>The sonnet is basically a 14 line poem with a definite meter and precise rhyme scheme.</p>
<p>Originally, the form was written with the theme of love, with a distinct shift in either the last two or six verse stanza.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Personally, I call Sonnets musical poetry because of its regular meter which lends it the same attribute of a song written for the ears.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>With time the sonnet form has changed and even now includes a bizarre looking one-word-per-line form called one word sonnets.</p>
<p><strong>SONNET STRUCTURE:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Shakespearean</strong>: Shakespearean sonnet, commonly called the English sonnet, has 14 lines. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is A-B-A-B C-D-C-D E-F-E-F. The couplet has the rhyme schem E-G-G.</li>
<li><strong>Italian/Petrarchan:</strong> This sonnet also has 14 lines but it is broken only into two parts/stanzas —a rhyming octave (8-lines) as A-B-B-A-A-B-B-A and a rhyming sestet (6-lines) as C-D-C-D-C-D.</li>
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<p><strong>SONNET SAMPLES</strong></p>
<p><strong>MEMORIAM PERIRE</strong> (by <em>Albert K. Jungers</em>)</p>
<blockquote><p>My deep regards, farewell dear Anglia<br>
Ensuring there is no speech that is quite as drab<br>
Meaningful verses expounded, ready to grab<br>
Obscure texts, brooks explaining inter alia.<br>
Revealing books, arcane paraphernalia<br>
Inquisitors file furtively into the lab<br>
A brain and sonnet exposed now upon a slab<br>
My poetry like my messy neural glia.</p>
<p>Pondering iambic verse against trochaic<br>
Enduring prosaic parts (these as provided)<br>
Rendering anaemic verse, at points poetic.<br>
Incurring challenges my thesis decided<br>
Remembering Alexandria archaic<br>
Endearingly given, as this is divided.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>SOLEASI NEL MIO COR</strong> (by <em>Francesco Petrarch</em>)</p>
<blockquote><p>She ruled in beauty o’er this heart of mine,<br>
A noble lady in a humble home,<br>
And now her time for heavenly bliss has come,<br>
‘Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.</p>
<p>The soul that all its blessings must resign,<br>
And love whose light no more on earth finds room,<br>
Might rend the rocks with pity for their doom,<br>
Yet none their sorrows can in words enshrine;</p>
<p>They weep within my heart; and ears are deaf<br>
Save mine alone, and I am crushed with care,<br>
And naught remains to me save mournful breath.</p>
<p>Assuredly but dust and shade we are,<br>
Assuredly desire is blind and brief,<br>
Assuredly its hope but ends in death.<br>
<em>(Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>PASSING IN THE NIGHT</strong> (by<em> Albert K. Jungers</em>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Call it not love, though others style it so,<br>
I’ll not be party to such a charade.<br>
This use that you make as you surely know,<br>
It passes for naught, and nothing is made.</p>
<p>Eases your tension, abuses another,<br>
Wellspring of passion, fuss and a bother.<br>
Love is taking a hand willingly given,<br>
To hold and cherish in storms hard-driven.</p>
<p>Warmth in the cold, comfort at night,<br>
Companion when old, seeking the right.<br>
Giving life to a child to nurture and nourish,<br>
Gentle and mild with courage to flourish.</p>
<p>Call it not love, this thing that you do<br>
Unless you can prove by daylight it’s true!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>SONNET 116</strong> (by <em>William Shakespeare</em>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br>
Admit impediments. Love is not love<br>
Which alters when it alteration finds,<br>
Or bends with the remover to remove:</p>
<p>O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<br>
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br>
It is the star to every wandering bark,<br>
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.</p>
<p>Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br>
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:<br>
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br>
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.</p>
<p>If this be error and upon me proved,<br>
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS</strong><br>
Shakespeare’s sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables.</p>
<p>The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.</p>
<p>An example of an iamb would be good BYE.</p>
<p>A line of iambic pentameter flows like this:<br>
baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM.</p>
<p><strong>Here are some examples from Shakespeare’s sonnets:</strong></p>
<p>When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME (Sonnet 12<br>
When IN / dis GRACE / with FOR / tune AND / men’s EYESI ALL / a LONE / be WEEP / my OUT/ cast STATE <strong>(Sonnet 29)</strong><br>
Shall I / com PARE/ thee TO / a SUM / mer’s DAY? Thou ART / more LOVE / ly AND / more TEM / per ATE <strong>(Sonnet 18)</strong></p>
<p>Shakespeare’s plays are also written primarily in iambic pentameter, but the lines are unrhymed and not grouped into stanzas.</p>
<p>Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse.</p>
<p>It should be noted that there are also many prose passages in Shakespeareís plays and some lines of trochaic tetrameter, such as the Witches’ speeches in Macbeth.</p>
<p><strong>FURTHER NOTES FROM by Albert K. Jungers:</strong><br>
Quite obviously, I’ve broken some rules, but so did Shakespeare. For one thing, his love poems were written to young men. For another, he established a new pattern.</p>
<p>My first sonnet is a double acrostic, Petrarchan Alexandrine sonnet. My second is an English sonnet, with a different style and rhyme scheme. The Alexandrine is a slightly different rhythm based on a pattern of 4 and 6 stresses.</p>
<p>Your challenge is to write a sonnet, but if you break the rules, know why and where.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Now, start practicing. It’s just a matter of 14 lines….write your own sonnet and submit in the comment section below.</em></p></blockquote>
 
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