It is neither. It is a speech, extracted from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. It is poetic, but it is not a poem since it is not intended to stand alone as a poem. It is not a Sonnet--it does not rhyme as all sonnets do.
Just for your info: If something is a sonnet then, believe me, it has to be a poem as well. Guaranteed.
All The Worlds a Stage.
All sonnets are poems.
All of the prologue, taken as a whole, is a sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with a certain structure. The Prologue is fourteen lines long and has that structure.
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
He trying to say all the worlds a stage its on big place and its quite frighten.
All The Worlds a Stage.
All sonnets are poems.
finish your sentence please by editing your question... a sonnet is a poem with 14 lines and rhyming couplets...that is all i can tell you without the finished question
It's not a poem. It's a speech from the play As You Like It. And "foregrounding" is not a helpful term when discussing speeches or poetry, because all it means is emphasis, and of course there is emphasis in all speeches and poetry.
All of the prologue, taken as a whole, is a sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with a certain structure. The Prologue is fourteen lines long and has that structure.
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
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He trying to say all the worlds a stage its on big place and its quite frighten.
It is not a poem, but rather a speech said by the character Jaques in the Shakespeare play As You Like It, Act 2 Scene vii. As You Like It was written around 1600 but not published until the First Folio in 1623.
This is a sonnet, provided other requirement are met-- there must be a definite rhyme scheme and I think, 10 syllable per line( this may not be necessary, but surely all lines must have the same number of syllables.
all the worlds a stage has a variety of alliteration such as : shrunk shank quick in quarrel and satchel and shining
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