Sonnet

The conventions of his sonnet cycle are the lady, a golden-haired, proud woman who cruelly rebuffs her poet-lover, and the lover, who fears the lady's scorn and rejection but faithfully hopes for her love. He describes himself as alternately freezing and burning, like a ship tossed by the sea. He calls upon sleep to ease his cares and realizes that through his poetry his lady will be given eternal fame.

Sir Philip Sidney wrote "Astrophel and Stella," a sonnet sequence which was published in 1591. It is considered one of the most important works of the Elizabethan era.

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Nothing lasts for ever against time. Everything falls to the power of time even beauty and love except children and that you can live on through your children. I remember thinking when i first read it that it was written by a man who worried about everything dieing and going bad but then had a child and realised that even death doesn't stop you from living, as you can live through your children. Read it and form your own opining. The beauty of Shakespeare is that it evokes emotions and thoughts of your own when reading it. Here is the modern version which i don't like to look at as it loses the beauty of Shakespeare but if it helps here it is: When I look at the clock and notice time ticking away, and see splendid day sink into hideous night; when I see the violet wilt and curly black hair turn white with age; when I see tall trees that once provided shade for herds now barren of leaves, and the summer's crops tied up and hauled to the barn as if summer itself were an old man being carried off to his grave-then I have doubts about the fate of your beauty, since you too will have to undergo the ravages of time. Sweet and beautiful creatures don't stay that way; they die as fast as they see others grow. And there's no defense against Time's destructive power, except perhaps to have children-to defy Time when he takes you away.

An iambic foot is consisted of two syllables -- I'm not quite sure what beats are, but they should be the same as syllables. Each iambic foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, on which you naturally place more emphasis. An example of a line composed of a couple of iambic feet would be:

(Here the stressed syllables are in CAPS)

i HAVE to GRILL the STEAK toDAY.

So, in short, the answer is TWO.

Unrimed Iambic Pentameter is probably the commonest verseline in English. Many of Shakespeare's speeches are written in it, and Milton chose it for his Paradise Lost.

Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit

Of that forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste

Brought Death into the world and all our woe

With loss of Eden, till one Greater Man

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Do you know what a "final couplet" is ? It's the last two lines of the poem. You would have saved yourself much time and trouble by simply finding a copy of the poem (it's readily available on the internet) and looking for the last two lines. The last two lines of Sonnet XLIII are "All days are nights to see till I see thee/ And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

Yes, Sonnet 73 is written in iambic pentameter. It consists of 14 lines, with each line containing 10 syllables following the pattern of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iambic) and five metrical feet in total (pentameter).

Here's how you determine a rhyme scheme. You know what it means when words rhyme, right? They have the same vowel and consonant sound at the end. So we ignore all the words in the poem except the last one in each line.

1. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah EYES

2. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah STATE

3. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah CRIES

4. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah FATE

5. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah HOPE

6. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah POSESSED

7. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah SCOPE

8. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah LEAST

9. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah DESPISING

10. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah STATE

11. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ARISING

12. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GATE

13. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah BRINGS

14. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah KINGS

OK. You take the first end-word, EYES, and call that rhyme A. You will note that the end-word for line 3, CRIES, also ends in rhyme A. Very good. Line 2's end-word is STATE which does not rhyme with EYES, so we call it rhyme B. And you will note that the end words of lines 4, 10 and 12 also have rhyme B. HOPE is rhyme C, and POSESSED is rhyme D. (For the purposes of this analysis, we should assume that LEAST rhymed with POSESSED in whatever weird accent Shakespeare spoke in, and so is also rhyme D. You can question this later if you want, but for now let's go with it).

Continue through to the end of the poem, and write down your results, with the line numbers 1:A 2:B 3:A 4:B 5:C 6:D and so on.

Now leave out the line numbers so you get a stream of letters ABABCDCD and so on. This is your rhyme scheme.

The "murth'ring boy" introduced in line 2 of Sir Philip Sidney's Sonnet 20 is Cupid, the god of love who is often depicted as a mischievous figure causing people to fall in love against their will. He is described as the "bad guest" at line 11 because, like an uninvited guest, his presence and actions can disrupt and cause chaos in people's lives.

Sort of. It's certainly playing with the form of the Italian sonnet. Like the Italian sonnet, "Why Brownlee Left" is broken up into an octave and a sestet. This is Muldoon indicating to us that this should at least recall the sonnet form. However, unlike the sonnet, "Why Brownlee Left" does not follow a rhyme scheme (an Italian sonnet is usually rhymed abbaabba cdecde, and the English sonnet usually ababcdcdefefgg) nor is it written in iambic pentameter (the lines are varying lengths rather than 10 syllables each). Muldoon is not a sloppy writer though; he's making this poem more about Brownlee, but also about the sonnet--this is metafiction in that respect. Just like Brownlee, who left when he had every reason to be content, poets are leaving behind the form of the sonnet (in exchange for the free verse we more typically see today) when they had every reason to be content with the sonnet form. That's one reading of it anyway.

So, is this a sonnet? Sort of us. It's either commentary on the tradition of the sonnet, or it is an imperfect sonnet, or more likely it's both.

Sure thing! Here is a short poem for grade 6 students:

In the meadow, the flowers bloom, Underneath the bright full moon. Nature's beauty all around, In every sight and every sound.

Yes, Shakespeare uses a simile in Sonnet 29 when he compares himself feeling downcast to "like to one more rich in hope, featured like him, like him with friends possessed." This creates an image of someone who is suddenly uplifted and hopeful.

John Milton (1608 - 1674) from Sonnet X1X 'When I consider how my light in spent' A reference to his blindness.

Petrarch in the first 8 line is talking about all the things he loves about this lady and how her beauty has captured him. The next 6 lines Petrarch is talking about how love discovered him when he wasn't expecting it, that it just happened. Also, that this love is a journey with lots of up and downs.

In "The Prologue," Anne Bradstreet uses irony and sarcasm to criticize the societal expectations placed on female writers. She employs irony by presenting herself as a humble and unskilled poet, while also subtly asserting her talent and intelligence. The sarcasm is evident in her satirical tone when describing the obstacles and prejudices faced by women writers, highlighting the absurdity of the limitations placed on them.

a ballad is a poem which includes a story, chorus, rhythm, shape and rhyme.

The definition of story is "an account of a real or imaginary event"/the plot or succession of incidents of a novel, poem, drama. In a ballad you have to have a story this includes characters and what the ballad is about. A ballad usually tells you a love story, or a story connected to love. The story will often have a moral which will teach you a message (something that can help you or is needed to know in life).

In all ballads a particular repetition pattern can be used. This can be as brief as a phase or as long as a verse. This section is called a chorus. In the ballad Frankie and Johnny, at the end of each verse lies a similar sentence (a chorus): "He was her man but he done her wrong"- although this is not always the case.

The rhythm is the beat or pace of the poem but in this ballad it is the amount of syllables in every line. The shape of the ballad is not the physical shape of the poem, but it is the length, and how the words and sentences are distributed in the poem also many words are in the line.

I hope I helped!

None of Shakespeare's sonnets have names, only numbers like Sonnet XVIII. The named poems like Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, and the phoenix and the turtle, are not sonnets
William Shakespeare's sonnets were published first in 1609 under the title "Shake-speare's sonnets". There are 154 sonnets and they are all numbered: Sonnet I, Sonnet II, and so on. Sometimes they are known by their first lines. Shakespeare did not give them names.

The most common sonnet forms are the Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave followed by a sestet, while the Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a final rhymed couplet.

The sonnet was popularized by Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch in the 14th century. The structured 14-line form with a specific rhyme scheme eventually evolved into different variations, including the Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnet forms.

The two main types of sonnets are the Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet, which consists of an octave followed by a sestet, and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet, which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The Petrarchan sonnet typically has an ABBAABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme, while the Shakespearean sonnet follows an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme.

If your asking what the meaning is: the poem is saying that if only a man's love could be as blind as God's love in that beauty should oly be enhanced bylove, not love enhanced by beauty. She wants man to love her more for ehr than for her looks and when they grow in love that "nature" should be enhanced as well.

Sonnet form can provide structure and discipline for expressing complex ideas or emotions. Its specific rhyme scheme and meter can create a sense of unity and coherence, while the constraints of the form can challenge a writer to craft language in a precise and impactful way. Additionally, the tradition and history of the sonnet can add depth and meaning to a poem.