What is difference between limerick and sonnet?

Answer 1

A limerick is a five line poem, usually with a humorous subject, usually in a trochaic metre, rimed

AABBA

(the B lines are nearly always shortened, and regularly halflines):

There was a young lady from Deal

Who was totally lacking appeal;

"Though I try and I try.

I just can't hook a boy!

I'll just have to marry a seal!"

A sonnet is nearly always serious, has fourteen lines, and is usually (in English) in iambic pentameter.

I touch the curtain. What's left of the day

Draws longitudes across your bedroom wall.

The room is a cartographer's display

Of vectors and projections, where we're small

And plottable. I wonder if someone

Here before me would notice the same thing

And think about its transience. The sun

Almost behind the hospital now, sinking

Down in the orange litter of its cranes

That almost spell-out letters ... But I'm stuck

If I can read them. All the weather-vanes

Show different ways. The unexpected dark

Wraps its magnetic baffle round the earth.

You draw my flesh. See. You are my True North.

Answer 2

A limerick is a type of humorous poem that has a strict rhyming pattern (AABBA), typically consisting of five lines. On the other hand, a Sonnet is a 14-line poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme and often explores themes of love, beauty, and nature. Sonnets are typically divided into two parts: the octave (eight lines) and the sestet (six lines).

Answer 3

Lots of things are untrue about an English sonnet.

But if your teacher is trying to distinguish between Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English) sonnets: a Shakespearean sonnet will not normally have a volta (change in point of view) between lines 8 and 9 (the volta is a distinguishing feature of Petrarchan sonnets).

Even so, there are some sonnets which while technically Shakespearean (English) still keep the volta. Donne's Holy Sonnets are the most famous example.

Answer 4

Lyric poetry is with a focus on the linguistic beauty of the words, like an ode, as opposed to narrative poetry, which is more about telling a story in verse. A sonnet, though, is a specific poetic form consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter.

Answer 5

A sonnet is contains 14 rhyming lines of the same length depicting the relationship between two things. Poems have varied rhyme schemes and themes.

Answer 6

they are different because a sonnet has 14 lines and a cinquain has 5

Answer 7

Limerick is more joyful, A sonnet is more full of sorrow kind like O Captian, My Captian.