A sonnet is a poem with fourteen lines of iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme scheme. The Italian sonnets were the first with the rhyme scheme: abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd. When the English picked up this poem style, they changed the rhyme scheme to abab cdcd efef gg. Because English is harder to rhyme, the change was made to give the English a larger selection of words to rhyme. ... This line shows personification by the words "whose" and "his". ...

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His vivid descriptions, his grace with words, his forceful vocabulary . His manipulation of words and at the same time manipulates his audience's mind. ... Romeo is being very moody, he is expressing his feelings to Benvolio in rhyming couplets. Rhyming couplets tell the audience of Romeo's strong feeling of wanting to be left alone. ... When Shakespeare manipulates words it helps us understand and causes us to think at the same time. ...

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As the agreement indicates, Mephistopheles returns and Faustus keeps his promise and signs away his soul; he signs the oath with his own blood and writes on his arm the words ˜Homo fuge' meaning ˜Fly, man'. ...

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The rhyme scheme of both is abab cdcd efef gg and the rhyme is almost entirely masculine, meaning the rhyme sound is the last syllable of the line. The only place that this idea does not hold true is the last two lines of Sonnet # 33 in the words "distaineth" and "staineth", which are feminine rhymes. ...

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The third method that is used is the use of rhyming couplets. ... However in the last section (lines 13 & 14) the rhyming couplets are not placed alternatively, they are placed together. ... The line also contains its own internal rhyming section using "doth with their death", using the "th" sounds to make it rhyme. ... I think the use alliteration makes you notice the words and makes thinking easier. ... The two rhyming lines at the end of the prologue are typical of a traditional sonnet. ...

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A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem usually in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. ... Finally in the copulet of the sonnet begining with "So long as men can breath or eyes can see" Shakespear is closing the sonnet with saying you will be forever remembered in my verses or words. ...

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Some of the first words out of her mouth are the beginnings of a plan to kill the King, a hell-worthy sin of the greatest evil. ... Her words become more rhythmic and what she says seems almost like an incantation. ... Shakespeare usually only uses rhyming couplets to indicate the end of a scene, but here he uses one to underline one of the main themes of the play. ... - but now, her guilty conscience is a burden she has to bear, and the rhyming couplet could be said to be the beginning of her descent into madness. ...

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(see the song 3/2/62) The first major hint is in the songs' lyrics, multiple words rhyme with lead, "bred, head, fed" the lead casket being the one Portia knows is the correct choice. ...

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The use of inner rhyme "depth and breath" confines Browning's love however by professing this, she initially attempts to quantify her love but then implies that it is immeasurable by relating it to the abstract idea of her "soul". ... Browning's use of capital letters emphasizes these words equating the power of her love to the power of the Almighty. ...

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