Sonnet

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.

After 1564, when he was born, and before 1609, when it was published. That's all we know.

The features of a shakepearean sonnet are:

They have 14 lines

3 quatrains and a couplet

It consists of three quatrains that are each 4 lines and ends the poem with a two line couplet. It's always going to have a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg and an iambic pentameter rhythm.

quatrain one - states the problem

quatrain two- elaborates on the problem

quatrain three- a solution

couplet- what happened at the end.

The octet, or first eight lines, always follow the pattern abbaabba. The final six lines usually have three different lines, but their arrangement varies.

To use as 'fish bait'.

William Shakespeare wrote all the plays and sonnets, they have been saying that bard wrote them but William shakespeare fact wrote all of them.

Sonnet 18 and sonnet 116

No, Venus and Adonis is a verse poem of some 50 or so verses, (I didn't check, I guessed). Each verse has six lines, (sestina) rather than 14 (sonnet), so it's both structured differently and much much longer than the sonnet form.

However V&A was composed before the period generally accepted for the sonnets, and it has influenced the arguments of some of the sonnets in Sequence I, the young friend sequence.

Hope this helps.

A bad smell.

When William Shakespeare's verse begins to sound

Ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum,

This rhythm has a very special name:

Pentameter iambic it is call'd

Because an iamb is a weak-strong pair

Of syllables which make a metric foot.

And when you get a string of iambs five

You use the word pentameter to say

This line has neither more nor less than five

Of metric feet. This is because the Greeks

Said penta when they meant the number five.

For English speakers verses in this style

Are easy and quite natural to say,

And any fool can think up lots of lines.

Rhyme scheme. An Italian sonnet is clearly divided into an octet (an eight-line section) and a sestet (a six line section). The octet always has the rhyme pattern ABBAABBA. English sonnets, on the other hand, although they are sometimes in an octet/sestet form, are often in the form of three quatrains and a couplet. They are less likely to use repeated rhymes in the quatrains.

Shakespearean sonnet uses the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg, whereas Italian sonnet uses the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee (linking rhymes).

They are often contrastive ideas, emotions, states of mind, beliefs, actions, events, images etc.

14 lines, a strict rhyme scheme, and written in iambic pentameter

The sonnets do not tell a story, and so cannot tell the life of Shakespeare or anyone else. They are, however, personal in the sense that the sentiments expressed were Shakespeare's own. However, we might have a tendency (partly from desperation, knowing so little about Shakespeare's life) to read more into them than they can really bear. The affection which he expresses, for example, may have been Platonic more than romantic or sexual, although we would like to read it in the latter senses.

Presumably you are alluding to the verse "Crabbed Age and Youth" to which the editor of the Harvard Classics gave the dull and unhelpful name "A Madrigal" in 1909. This was one of the verses found in the collection called A Passionate Pilgrim which publisher William Jaggard issued in 1599. Although the collection is attributed to Shakespeare, it is a cheap and shoddily assembled volume which contains a number of verses which are certainly by other poets, and contains a number where the attribution to Shakespeare is dubious (as well as some where Shakespeare's authorship is certain). This verse is one of the dubious ones. It certainly lacks the finesse which even the immature Shakespeare shows, with its lack of a coherent rhyme scheme, its monotonous reiteration of contrasting words for age and youth, and the surprise appearance of a shepherd for some unknown reason in the second-to-last line.

There are no metaphors in the poem, although there are similes in four consecutive lines "like summer morn", "like winter weather", "like summer brave", and "like winter bare". There are numerous personifications of youth and age.

Francesco Petrarca, better known as Petrarch.

If you mean Shakespeare's sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) - Shakespeare does not insult his mistress anywhere in this sonnet.

The plain sense of the sonnet is that Shakespeare is saying: 'Other poets write about girlfriends with skin whiter than snow, lips redder than coral, and voices sweeter than music: but my girlfriend is better than that.'

If your teacher thinks that Sonnet 130 insults the woman it is written about - then your teacher should not be teaching poetry (any more than an Intelligent Design advocate should be teaching Biology).

End of.

The transience of life, love, and quite a few are about carrying on one's beauty by having a child. For example, Sonnet 10 (one of my favourites) ends with the rhyming couplet 'Make thee another self, for love of me; That beauty still may live in thine or thee.'

Bill Lawrence created the show, but there are many different writers if you go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scrubs_episodes it tells you the writer for every episode. John

he envies the hope of other men, the looks of other men, the skills of other men and the freedom of other men.

There are 154 of them, so the last one is number 154. However, there is no guarantee that they are numbered in the order he wrote them. The last one he wrote might have been number 5 for all we know. In fact for all we know, he might have written more sonnets after the 154 we know about were published, since he lived for another seven years after their publication.

They are the poems numbered 1- 154 in the book, Shakespeare's Sonnets, published in 1609 plus a few included within the script of a number of his plays.