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It doesn't symbolize anything really, but it does tell us something about the character that is speaking. Shakespeare had his comic or commonplace characters speak in prose but had the more serious and more noble characters speak in verse (that is, blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter).

So, in a play like A Midsummer Night's Dream, it is no surprise that the Duke Theseus, his fiancee Hippolyta, the lovers and the fairies speak verse while Bottom and the "rude mechanicals" speak prose. They do this even when they are talking to each other, as in the following exchange:

Titania:

I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape,

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.

Bottom:

Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that, and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek on occasion.

(This strange-sounding last line means "Just kidding!")

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Whiny and complaining.

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The type of sonnet which most usually features a riming couplet (in English) is the Shakespearean sonnet. Riming couplets can feature in other types of sonnet (Petrarchan, Spenserian ....), but they are rarer, and don't form an important feature of the sonnet structure (the way the couplet is always the end and the summation of a Shakespearean sonnet).

In a Shakespearean sonnet the riming couplet brings the sonnet to an end (the final two lines are always a riming couplet), and nearly always sums up the argument of the sonnet. If you want to know what a Shakespearean sonnet is about, you can usually get a clear idea just from reading the final two lines (the couplet).

Taking some of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets:

Sonnet 29 (When in disgrace ....) has a core meaning of:

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes) can be summarised:

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Sonnet 73 (That time of year) boils down to:

This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

If you ever need to know what Shakespeare is getting at in a sonnet: read the riming couplet (the last two lines) first.

This will also work for the vast majority of other Shakespearean sonnets written in English.

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Sonnet 116 has the central idea or argument of the eternity of love. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ admit impediments" which if paraphrased means, 'let me not admit any disagreement in the union between people with true minds'. He states that love is not true love if it alters with those who try to alter it. He says true love is the one which moves unshaken amid all the obstacles that it comes across (tempests). "It is an ever-fixed mark" he says emphasizing the eternity of true love, which according to him exists until the day of reckoning ("doom").

His emphasis is so strong that he goes to the extent of saying that if he had made mistake by claiming the eternity of true love, it would be as much impossible as it would be that he had never written anything or any man in this world would have never loved, "I never writ, nor no man ever loved".

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Sonnets tend to be about love and/or nature.

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Pretty subjective but some of my favorites are 18 (shall I compare thee), 119 (what potions have I drunk), 121 ('tis better to be vile), 125 (I bore the canopy), 127 (in the old age black was not counted fair), 128 (how oft when thou my music, music playst), 64 (when I have seen by time's fell hand disgraced), 65 (since brass nor stone), 138 (when my love swears), 53 (what is your substance).

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First look to see if the predominant rhythm is iambic--do the words have a ti-DUM ti-DUM feel to them. If so, the rhythm is iambic. Then see if the phrases tend to have five strong beats. If so, it's pentameter.

Just looking through the favourite quotations from the movie "Twilight" on the IMdb, you can find: "Bella, guess who asked me to the prom?" If you added an unaccented syllable at the beginning, "Hey Bella! Guess who asked me to the prom?" it's iambic pentameter. Or "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb": although the last foot "with the lamb" is actually an anapest, this is basically a line of iambic pentameter.

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The attached link contains some helpful hints for reciting poetry.

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Shakespeare wrote it so he is the speaker, as a man to the object of his love.

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The traditional English sonnet form has 14 lines.

More typically, modern verse that claims to be a sonnet but does not follow the 14-line construction (having 12 or 16 lines) would more accurately be a form of free verse.

A Shakespearean sonnet has a standard format of 14 lines in total. 3 quatrains of 4 lines each ending off with a rhyming couplet.

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There are 54 sonnets.

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They were "Invisible." It was said that only idiots could not see the fabric, so everyone lied and said they could see it. This resulted of the king parading naked down the streets.

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An Italian petrarchian sonnet consists of one octave and a sestet which add up to 14 lines written in iambic pentameter

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He's referring to the sonnet. The speaker is saying that neither the marble or the gilded monuments will outlive the sonnet. He's implying that since the memory of whoever he is talking to will live within the sonnet.

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it consist of 14 lines of text that follows a specific rhyming pattern.