Sunday, May 1, 2011

Sonnet

SONNET
Definition: has 14 lines with iambic pentameter

Example: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
And keep him there; and let him thence escape
If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape
Flood, fire, and demon--his adroit designs
Will strain to nothing in the strict confines
Of this sweet Order, where, in pious rape,
I hold his essence and amorphous shape,
Till he with Order mingles and combines.
Past are the hours, the years, or our duress,
His arrogance, our awful servitude:
I have him. He is nothing more than less
Than something simple not yet understood;
I shall not even force him to confess;
Or answer. I will only make him good.
 Significance:  Shakespeare used sonnets a lot. Sonnet only have 14 lines, so the writers must follow this, and can't continue on and on.

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