so to get over and done with this cruddy thing... Here goes:
Sonnets , 14 lines
common ever since the Renaissance
No other poem is so versatile and ubiquitous and agreeable as the sonnet
Geometry of the poem, square like
READ the poem first, BEFORE any stylistic analysis
images, and the musicality of the language, idea, content, wordplay
Sonnet - merely a form
2 MAIN TYPES - Pentrachan and Shakespearean
PENTACHAN
rhyme scheme that ties the octave (8) together followed by a sestet (6)
and if you are really poor in maths yes that is 14 lines
SHAKESPEAREAN
divided into quatrains and there is a rhyming couplet at the end
Count how many sentences there are in the poem
often it follows the basic pattern of 8/6 : leaving us to 2 sentences
POEMS- Arranged in lines, written in sentences
Blank Sonnet - unrhyming lines
MAIN POINT : READ FIRST DISSECT LATER !!!!
So... Poetry is rather simple... if your brain is slightly warped like most lit students are.
Sign off... Botti
