Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Shakespeare sonnets!

Again, do visit www.nosweatshakespeare.com to read more sonnets. To revise:

  • It has 14 lines, with alternate rhyming lines
  • It is supposed to have 3 quatrains (means every four lines are put together), and one couplet (2 lines together) right at the end.
Basically, the quatrains tells the story while the couplets is a sort of conclusion, or final say from the poet. Strangely, the first 17 sonnets asks the young man whom the poet is referring to to have children, while sonnet number 18-126 expresses love to a young man! Maybe Shakespeare is imagining that he is a girl when he was writing them.

*Information from Wikipedia

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