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Renaissance Poetry Part II
Emblematic Poetry
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Picture poem
Shaped verse
Concrete poetry
calligramme
Sonnets
How do you know the poem is a sonnet?
Sonnets almost always have 14 lines.
However, some modern sonnets have more
lines.
Sonnets are titled by number or first line.
Three Basic Types of Sonnets
• Italian or Petrachan
• English or Shakespearean
• Spenserian
Usually a problem is introduced in the first half and the
resolved or intensified in the second half of the poem.
Italian or Petrarchan
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F. Petrarch created the form.
Octave—8 lines
Sestet—6 lines
The sonnet has a turn or volta. (shift or
change)
• abba abba cdcdcd or cde cde—rhyme scheme
English or Shakespearean
• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.
• abab cdcd efef gg—rhyme scheme
• The last two lines are a closed couplet.
A couplet is two lines of poetry that rhyme and
make a complete thought.
• English sonnets had 3 quatrains and 1 couplet.
A quatrain is 4 lines.
The turn usually occurs before the couplet.
• Iambic pentameter---meter
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Shakespeare dedicate his sonnets to Mr. W. H..
• In some sonnets, Shakespeare refers to a rival
poet and a dark lady.
• We don’t really know the order of the
sonnets.
Spenserian Sonnet
• Created by Edmund Spenser
• abab bcbc cdcd ee---linking rhyme scheme
• He wrote a sonnet sequence or sonnet cycle
which is a group of sonnets on the same
subject.
Reasons why the rhyme scheme might
not work:
• 1. translation from a different language
• 2. poetic license
• 3. pronunciation of words has changed over
time
Literary Terms
• Anaphora—beginning words or repeated
• Paradox—an apparent contradiction that is
actually true
Example: love and hate someone
• Carpe diem—seize the day