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Sonnets are a poetic form in which...
There are 14 lines which in turn almost always (in English at least) have 10 syllables in them. These are arranged into 5 iambs. This is the technical description for a weak beat followed by a strong beat - it's a bit like your heart beat... de (weak) dum (strong). When you have 5 iambs in a line, this is called iambic pentameter. It's the same measure that Shakespeare uses through many of his plays.
A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times.
A Shakespearean sonnet is a poem in the form ababcdcdefefgg with ten syllables in each line.
ten-syllable line
A Shakespearean, or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each containing ten syllables and in iambic pentameter! Each line also had a pattern of a non-emphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable and is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG the last two lines, GG, end in a rhyming couplet. blah blah blah blah blah blah
A sonnet typically consists of 14 lines. The most common meter for a sonnet is iambic pentameter, which means each line has 10 syllables with a stress on every second syllable.
It is called Iambic Pentameter, a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
There are five iambic feet in a line from Sonnet 18 which consists of ten syllables alternating in stress pattern, such as: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
An example of iambic pentameter is the line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. This line consists of five iambs (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable), making it iambic pentameter.
In Sonnet 16, each line follows the iambic pentameter rhythm which stresses every other syllable. The stressed syllables are typically on even-numbered syllables, such as the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is a famous example of a line written in iambic pentameter. It consists of ten syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable pattern.
A one syllable word has only one syllable. A ten syllable word has ten. There are no one syllable words with ten syllables.
The official definition of the word Sonnet is "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line."