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Your teacher probably wants you to say that a Shakespearean Sonnet does not have a volta (the change in point of view which occurs between Octave and Sestet which is the defining characteristic of the Petrarchan sonnet).
This isn't quite true. Several of Shakespeare's sonnets have very obvious voltas. One of the most interesting is sonnet LX where the volta appears to fall between lines 7 and 8, making an interestingly asymmetric movement which I have seen nowhere else in poetry.
But Shakespearean sonnets don't usually have voltas, in fact only an author as daring as Shakespeare would even think of giving a Shakespearean sonnet a volta. (Though Donne, I suppose, was such another).
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Sonnet 18 and sonnet 116
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Sonnet XXX. Shakespeare's sonnets do not have titles, just numbers.
Is sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare a petrarchan sonnet?
yes
What type is sonnet 73?
If you mean William Shakespeare's sonnet 73, it is not surprisingly a Shakespearean sonnet.
What are Shakespeare's best sonnet?
Sonnet 18 and sonnet 116
What is the theme of sonnet 32 of Shakespeare?
The theme of the Sonnet 32 by Shakespeare was "handsome youth."
What is the Title of Shakespeare's 30 Sonnet?
Sonnet XXX. Shakespeare's sonnets do not have titles, just numbers.
Is sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare a petrarchan sonnet?
yes
What type is sonnet 73?
If you mean William Shakespeare's sonnet 73, it is not surprisingly a Shakespearean sonnet.
What type of poem is Shakespeare's sonnet 12?
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spensarion sonnets or elizabethian sonnet
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Who said this famous quote and yet by heaven you think your love as rare?
The actual quote is "And yet by heaven I think my love as rare..." The quote was written by none other than William Shakespeare. It was from the sonnet, Sonnet 130. This whole sonnet is based around Shakespeare's light-hearted mocking of the conventional sonnet.
What is an example of a love sonnet?
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