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SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETPETRARCHAN SONNET
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON
14 lines
Strict rhyme scheme.
Specific structure.
Each line containing ten syllables and written in
iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is
repeated five times.
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
Also called Elizabethan Sonnet.
The Shakespearean sonnet is broken down into 3 quatrains
and 1 couplet.
The ending couplet of a Shakespearean sonnet usually
reverses the tone or message of the previous quatrains.
Rhyme scheme: • ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG
PETRARCHAN SONNET
Also called the Italian Sonnet.
The Italian commonly is made up of two quatrains (or octave), followed by
two tercets (or sestet).
Thematically, an Italian sonnet most often relates a conflict (whether
physical or spiritual) in the first octave, and comes to a solution in the sestet.
Typically, the ninth line creates what is called the "turn" or "volta," which
signals the move from proposition to resolution.
The Italian sonnet has a more complex frame work, and has more variations.
The two quatrains usually runs: ABBA-ABBA, or ABAB-BABA, while the
second half was either devided into a sestet of CDC-CDC, or a two tercets of
CDE-CDE.
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