sonnets
Poems with volta
Sonnets is the plural of sonnet, a fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, traditionally written in iambic pentameter.
The form originated in Italy and was adapted by English poets like Shakespeare and Milton.
She wrote sonnets to her lover.
We studied the sonnets of Petrarch in class.
Verse rhythm type
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- meterDevice that measures usage
- feetLower limbs' ends
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
stress · unstressed · syllables · rhythm · beat · cadence · metrical · enjambment
Four-line poetic unit
- voltaRepeated section's alternate ending
- ababAlternating rhyme pattern
- turnRotational movement
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
Petrarchan · Shakespearean · Spenserian · Italian · English · envelope · argument · resolution
Metered poetic passage
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- dictionChoice of words
- toneQuality of sound
symbolism · alliteration · assonance · consonance · metaphor · conceit · apostrophe · blazon
Medieval Italian lyric poet
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- SpenserTudor allegorical poet
- SidneyPersonal or place name
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
Wordsworth · Browning · Rossetti · Neruda · Rilke · corona · Laura · rediscovery
Intense fond attachment
- mortalityState of eventual death
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- natureInherent quality or disposition
desire · devotion · beloved · courtship · passion · youth · aging · memory
Skilled manual art
- revisionAltering to improve
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- formalFollowing strict protocol
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
compression · economy · mastery · virtuosity · challenge · convention · variation · innovation
iambic
Verse rhythm type
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- meterDevice that measures usage
- feetLower limbs' ends
scansion · stress · unstressed · syllables · rhythm · beat · cadence · metrical · enjambment · caesura
quatrain
Four-line poetic unit
stanza · Petrarchan · Shakespearean · Spenserian · Italian · English · envelope · argument · resolution · division
verse
Metered poetic passage
tone · symbolism · alliteration · assonance · consonance · metaphor · conceit · apostrophe · blazon · wordplay
Petrarch
Medieval Italian lyric poet
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- SpenserTudor allegorical poet
- SidneyPersonal or place name
Milton · Wordsworth · Browning · Rossetti · Neruda · Rilke · corona · Laura · rediscovery
love
Intense fond attachment
nature · desire · devotion · beloved · courtship · passion · youth · aging · memory · loss
craft
Skilled manual art
- revisionAltering to improve
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- formalFollowing strict protocol
discipline · compression · economy · mastery · virtuosity · challenge · convention · variation · innovation · homage
- PoemsThe Raven, Ozymandias, Invictus, Paradise Lost, Beowulf
- Early English VerseChaucer, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne
- Early Modern LiteratureShakespeare, Milton, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost
- English RenaissanceShakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Jonson
- poetry formshaiku, tanka, limerick, limericks, ballad
- Renaissance LiteratureShakespeare, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Prince, Don Quixote
sonnetsfree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
prose poems · prose poetry · experimental poetry · found poetry · beat poetry
sonnetsepic poems
Extended heroic verse narratives
epics · Paradise Lost · Beowulf · cantos · haiku
sonnetsdoggerel
Trivial, clumsy verse
limericks · nursery rhymes · folk ballads · rap lyrics · greeting card verse
- Shakespearean sonnetFourteen-line poem, ABAB pattern
- love sonnetsFormal verses about devotion
- Petrarchan sonnetFourteen-line poem, octave-sestet structure
- Italian sonnetFourteen-line poem, octave-sestet structure
- romantic sonnetsAmorous fourteen-line verses
- English sonnetFourteen lines, ABAB pattern