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The document discusses two major types of sonnets: the Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and the English/Shakespearean sonnet. The Italian sonnet is divided into an octave rhyme scheme of abbaabba and a sestet of cdecde or cdcdcd. The English sonnet follows a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg and is composed of three quatrains and a couplet that develops an idea or emotion. Sonnets originated in Italy in the 14th century and strict rules govern their form, with the typical subject being love.

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CW Ho 4

The document discusses two major types of sonnets: the Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and the English/Shakespearean sonnet. The Italian sonnet is divided into an octave rhyme scheme of abbaabba and a sestet of cdecde or cdcdcd. The English sonnet follows a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg and is composed of three quatrains and a couplet that develops an idea or emotion. Sonnets originated in Italy in the 14th century and strict rules govern their form, with the typical subject being love.

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CREATIVE WRITING

SONNET
 It is a fixed lyrical poetry composed of 14 lines that follows a certain set of patter or rhyme scheme.
 Came from the Italian word sonnet which means little song.
 It originated in Italy probably in the 13th century
 Sonnet has a strict rules.
 If it violates the rule, it is can’t be consider as sonnet.
 The typical subject matter of sonnet is love.
 There are two major types of sonnet: Italian or Petrarchan and English or Shakespearean.

1. Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet


 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) in 14th century elevated the sonnet to its highest level of Italian perfection.
 Italian sonnet is distinguished by its division into the octave (octet || 8) and sestet (sextet || 6) – rhyming.

Rhyme Scheme (Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet)


1st line: ____________a
2nd line: ____________b
3rd line: ____________b
4th line: ____________a
5th line: ____________a octave (states the problem, asks a question, or
6th line: ____________b expresses an emotional tension)
7th line: ____________b
8th line: ____________a
9th line: ____________c c c
10th line: ____________d d d
11th line: ____________e c e sextet (resolves the problem, answers the
12th line: ____________c d d question, or relieves the tension)
13th line: ____________d c c
14th line: ____________e d e

 Petrarchan sonnet is made up of iambic hexameters or 6 pairs of iambs (ex. aRISE or the NIGHT) or also known as
Alexandrine lines (12 syllables per lies).
 But some Petararchan also employ iambic pentameter or 5 pair of iambs (10 syllables per line).
 Sir Thomas Wyatt translated Petrarcha’s work form Italian to English and brought sonnet in England where he also
left more than 30 of his original compositions
 Wyatt and associate, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), introduced sonnet to England.

From Visions
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

Being one day at my window all alone,


So manie strange things happened me to see,
As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
With deadly force so in their cruell race______________________
They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,
That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire._____________________
(Translated by Edmund Spenser)

2. English or Shakespearean Sonnet


 Developed and popularized by William Shakespeare.
 Shakespearean has four divisions: three quatrains (each with different rhyme schemes), and a final or concluding
couplet.
 It follows the usual rhyme schemes: abab cdcd efef gg.
 The thought or emotion state is introduced in the first quatrain, further developed or enhanced in second
quatrain, and reaches is height in the third quatrain, while the final couplet expresses the central theme or
concern of the poem
 English sonnet is typically made up of iambic pentameter (10 syllables for each line

Rhyme Scheme (English/Shakespearean Sonnet)


1st line: ____________a
2nd line: ____________b 1st Quatrain (Thought or emotion state is introduced)
3rd line: ____________a
4th line: ____________b
5th line: ____________c
6th line: ____________d 2nd Quatrain (Further development of thought)
7th line: ____________c
8th line: ____________d
th line: ____________e
10th line: ____________f 3rd Quatrain (Climax or highest point)
11th line: ____________e
12th line: ____________f
13th line: ___________g Couplet (expresses the central theme or concern of the poem)
14th line: ____________g

SONNET 116
William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds


Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:_______________ _______
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.__________
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.___________________
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.________________________

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