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Syllables are exactly what you are asking about. A Sonnet is made up of 14 lines, and each line is in iambic pentameter. An iamb is a particular combination of stresses; it is a weak stress followed by a strong stress. Think of the word 'begin'. So in one line of iambic pentameter there are 10 stresses, or syllables if you will, 5 weak stresses each followed by a strong stress. The stresses of an iamb do not have to be part of a single word. Syllables are usually thought of as a way to break down a single word into component stresses. In poetry, there is great beauty in being able to creatively bend the number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter while maintaining the basic rhythm inherent in the pattern. If you don't do this, you run the risk of writing nothing but doggerel, Hallmark verse.
Rhythm is the key to great poetry, and not necessarily the exact break-down of individual words. Think of poetry as music made of words.
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∙ 13y agoThis is Sonnet XXII (22) by William Shakespeare:
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain,
Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again.
It has 142 syllables. Nearly all of the lines have ten syllables, except for:
"O! therefore, love, be of thyself so wary"
and
"Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary"
both have eleven syllables.
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