What form of sonnet did Shakespeare use?

Answer 1

In Shakespeare, emotional intensity is reflected in liguistic formality. That is to say, when people are talking about trivial things, they speak in prose, but when they are being more intense, the language becomes more intense and more poetic, and is usually in blank verse. To make the emotions seem even more intense, at points of emotional climax, Shakespeare has the verse rhyme. But the ultimate in formality is to have the characters' conversation form a Sonnet, which is why he uses this form in Romeo and Juliet's conversation in Act 1 Scene 5.

The Prologues are set speeches and formality is also appropriate.

Shakespeare apparently felt that having characters speak in sonnets was a little over the top, as he never used the device again.

Answer 2

Female writers used it too, you know. What about Elizabeth Barrett Browning, author of Sonnets from the Portuguese? The sonnet is a compact form ideally suited to expressing a single idea, especially one with two parts: Part 1, but Part 2; or Part 1, therefore Part 2; or Part 1 then Part 2. The change of thought, if it comes, often comes around line nine. (Check to see how many ninth lines of Shakespeare's sonnets start with "But", "Yet", "Then" or "O!") It's still useful although there are fewer people with the word skills to make it work nowadays.

Answer 3

for romeo to show his passionate love to Juliet

Answer 4

One form of sonnet is called Shakespearean because that is the kind William Shakespeare wrote.