Shakespearean and Petrarchan Sonnets
Date Submitted: 12/27/2004 03:36:25
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1260 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1260 words)
Elizabeth Stevens
English Renaissance
Professor McKeown
11 May 2004
Shakespearean and Petrarchan Sonnets
<Tab/>A sonnet is a poem consisting of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. Iambic pentameter consists of ten
syllables per line of poetry with stress on every other syllable. The two main sonnet types are the Italian, or Petrarchan and the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean.
<Tab/>There are several facts …
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…sonner will never fade. Shakespeare then sums up his thoughts in the couplet. This sonnet also follows
the typical rhyme scheme.
<Tab/>The subject matter may seem similar between the two types of sonnets. Shakespeare was extremely inspired by the work of Petrarch and looked to his
work for inspiration when writing his own sonnets. Although the subject matter in both sonnets may sound very similar the strcture is vastly different.
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