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SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET PETRARCHAN SONNET WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

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Page 1: SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET PETRARCHAN SONNET WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETPETRARCHAN SONNET

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

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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.

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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

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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.