… The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means ‘a little sound or song.'” Poets like those below have been experimenting with the form for hundreds of years. The first is an unstressed syllable and the second is a stressed syllable. So, for instance, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 begins, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day So if you break that down, Shall I, that’s one. ![]() The Academy of American Poets defines a sonnet as: “a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. It is made up of two parts, or two syllables. Each line is in iambic pentameter, which is 10 syllables with a unstressed-stress pattern. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sonnets may well be the most studied and practiced poetic forms in the English language. Simply put, a sonnet is a poem (funny or otherwise) made up of three quatrains (in iambic pentameter) followed by a concluding couplet.
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