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- Chapter 4 — If It's Square, It's a Sonnet.
Chpt 4sonnet = poem of a particular form
- That first time, the correct answer will be "sonnet."
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- The next time it happens, "sonnet."
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- Basically, I figure the sonnet is the only poetic form the great majority of readers ever needs to know.
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- The sonnet, on the other hand, is blessedly common, has been written in every era since the English Renaissance, and remains very popular with poets and readers today.
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- And so, unless your ambitions have been spurred by this discussion, I'll stick to the sonnet, for one single reason: no other poem is so versatile, so ubiquitous, so various, so agreeably short as the sonnet.
Chpt 4sonnet = a form of poetry
- no other poem is so versatile, so ubiquitous, so various, so agreeably short as the sonnet.
Chpt 4sonnet = poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- After I tell the students that first time that it's a sonnet, half of them groan in belated recognition (often they know but think I have a hidden agenda or a trick up my sleeve) and the others ask me how I knew that so fast.
Chpt 4sonnet = poem of a particular form
- The miracle of the sonnet, you see, is that it is fourteen lines long and written almost always in iambic pentameter.
Chpt 4sonnet = a form of poetry
- And at least some part of the answer, if that magic came in a sonnet, is form.
Chpt 4sonnet = poem of a particular form
- A sonnet, in fact, we might think of as having two units of meaning, closely related, to be sure, but with a shift of some sort taking place between them.
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- The sonnet has been a big part of English poetry since the 1500s, and there are a few major types of sonnet and myriad variations.†
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- The sonnet has been a big part of English poetry since the 1500s, and there are a few major types of sonnet and myriad variations.†
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- A Petrarchan sonnet uses a rhyme scheme that ties the first eight lines (the octave) together, followed by a rhyme scheme that unifies the last six (the sestet).†
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- A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, tends to divide up by four: the first four lines (or quatrain), the next four, the third four, and the last four, which turn out to be only two (a couplet).†
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- Without making any extravagant claims—no, this is not the greatest sonnet ever written, nor the most important statement of anything—we can say that "An Echo from Willow-Wood" is an excellent specimen of its chosen form.†
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- The vessel, the sonnet form, actually becomes part of the meaning of the poem.†
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- Will every sonnet consist of only two sentences?†
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- There is something called a blank sonnet, "blank" meaning it employs unrhymed lines.†
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- But when a poet chooses to write a sonnet rather than, say, John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, it's not because he's lazy.†
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- Sonnets are like that, short poems that take far more time, because everything has to be perfect, than long ones.
Chpt 4sonnets = poems of a particular form
- As you know, that's Shakespeare's sonnet 73, your constant bedside reading.†
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Definitions:
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(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeAs an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)