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Most of the 'Fair Youth' sonnets (approximately 1 - 126) are addressed to an unmarried young man. Their usual argument is: 'you are so beautiful that you need to get married, and raise children; beautiful people who never marry leave nothing of their beauty behind on earth after they die'.
But Sonnet 18 breaks this pattern, since it says that the Fair Youth's beauty will live on long after his death in Shakespeare's poem.
Since Shakespeare's poem is referencing the far distant future (long after both the Fair Youth and Shakespeare have died) - it is inevitable that the poem will talk about future time (this isn't really foreshadowing, the poem is directly referencing a future state beyond itself).
But as usual, Shakespeare is messing with us. Sonnet 18 talks about beauty, and preserves the beauty it talks about for all time (or at least, for well over 400 years). But we don't know who the Fair Youth is. So the poem is being less than honest with us.
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What is the possible meaning for the word lines in line 12 of sonnet 18?
In Sonnet 18, line 12, "lines" likely refers to the lines of verse or poetry within the sonnet itself. This can be interpreted as a reference to the enduring nature of the speaker's love for the subject of the poem, which will live on through these lines of poetry.
What simile is used in lines 11 12 to describe the new state of mind in Shakespeare's sonnet 29?
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What simile is used in lines 11-12 to describe the new state of mind in Shakespeare's sonnet 29?
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What is Shakespeare's shortest sonnet?
Most of the short poems in the publication, Shakespeare's Sonnets were of the same length, 14 lines, and contained a minimum of 140 syllables. However, Sonnet 126 contains only 12 lines and around 120 syllables; Sonnet 145 contains a full 14 lines but only some 112 syllables.
How many lines does a Shakespeare Sonnet have?
14Fourteen.
What type of poem is Shakespeare's sonnet 12?
It's a sonnet of course.
What actors and actresses appeared in Sonnet Number 12 - 2009?
The cast of Sonnet Number 12 - 2009 includes: Alan Rickman
What is the rhyme scheme of sonnet xv and sonnet xxxiv?
Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines. In the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used metres.
Which arrangement of lines distinguishes an English sonnet?
An English sonnet typically consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) followed by a couplet (a two-line stanza), totaling 14 lines. The quatrains usually follow the ABAB rhyme scheme, while the couplet often has a separate rhyme scheme (such as CC or EE). This structure helps distinguish an English sonnet from other forms like the Italian or Shakespearean sonnet.
How do lines 1-12 in Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare develop the ideas in the poem about true lovers and how they grow their love for each other?
Lines 1 to 12 of a sonnet are virtually the whole poem, which is only 14 lines long. In this case, the last two lines can be paraphrased as "That's true, you know." so in effect the first twelve lines are the whole poem. This poem is not about love which grows. It is about love which endures. It "alters not", it is "an ever fixed mark" and is "never shaken". This unchanging love which he describes does not grow because things which grow change, and the love to which he refers, the "marriage of true minds", does not change at all and never will.
What is a six line poem called?
A nine-line poem is technically called a nonet, but the scarcity of the form means that the word is very rarely used, or found.Most poems set in nine-line stanzas follow the pattern of Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: eight lines in iambic pentameter, followed by a ninth line set in iambic hexameter (the extra foot, as well as the 12-syllable line itself, is called an Alexandrine.)The usual rhyme scheme for such a stanza is A-B-A-B-B-C-B-C-C. The form is popular enough to have acquired its own term: a Spenserian stanza.
What is the rhyme scheme in the proluge of romeo and Juliet?
The prologue is a sonnet, and the play has several other sonnets in it. But as a whole, it is a play.Sonnet: Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, withrhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being inthe strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (theoctave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in acommon English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
