Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. ... Petrarchan sonnets consisted of an octave and a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde where at the end of the octave, there would usually be a turn in the sonnet. On the other hand, Elizabethan sonnets consisted of three quatrains with a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. The couplet often served as a turn in the sonnet. In sonnet 130, its couplet served as a classical twist. ...

• Word Count: 591
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Frost's sonnet differs from the traditional Shakespearean sonnet in rhyme scheme, formation of ideas, tone, and theme. ... the form is divided into three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme of the three quatrains is ABAB, and the last two lines of the couplet have the rhyme scheme CC. The last quatrain and the couplet of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... Shakespeare's form develops a sequence of metaphors, or ideas in each quatrain and the couplet offers a summary of these ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Sonnet 130 also contains a couplet. The last two lines 13 and 14 are rhymed iambic couplets. ... Shakespeare uses the rhyme scheme of the English sonnet adjusting its form to ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Shakespeare uses this rhyme scheme in many of his sonnets making his lyrical poetry symmetrical. ... He uses the ABAB rhyme scheme, which creates the end rime. ...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Imposing the thematic sequence of a Petrarchan sonnet in a more formal pattern, Shakespeare uses the first and second quatrain to build on an argument and then concludes this by the final couplet. ... Finally in the conclusive couplet he shows animosity towards the woman he loves, and turns his focus away from his physical being and towards her infidelity. ... In the Petrarchan style, rather than the volta appearing in the ending couplet, it usually appears in the center of the poem after a developing thought within the first six lines and then another in the six lines after it. ... It appears...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate