Everything you need to know about sonnets

1. SONNETS & ITS
KINDS

2. SONNETS AND ITS KINDS
• What is a sonnet?
Sonnet – came from Italian word
“sonnetto” which means “little song.”
- It is a lyric poem consists
of fourteen lines written in iambic
pentameter.

3. Who is William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
– He is the greatest English poet
and playwright of all time.
- He was a man and artist from
Stratford-upon-Avon who became and
actor, poet, and playwright in London
from 1592 to 1616.

4. GREATEST LITERARY WORKS:
• Comedies:
“As You Like It”
“The Tempest”
“Twelfth Night”
• Tragedies
“ Hamlet” “King Lear”
“Romeo and Juliet” “Othello”
“Macbeth” “Anthony and Cleopatra”

5. 2 KINDS OF SONNET:
1.) “PETRARCHAN” or ITALIAN
SONNET
– it was introduced by Sir Thomas
Wyatt during the Renaissance Period. It was
named after a famous 14th century Italian
poet, Francesco Petrarch.
- it consists of two parts: the
octave (the first eight lines, the part that
raises the question or problem) and the
sestet (the last six lines, the solution or
answer to the octave.)

6. 2.) “ELIZABETHAN” or
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
– it is composed of three quatrains
and the last two rhyming lines or couplet.
The first quatrain (a verse with four lines)
presents a proposition, the second repeats
and explain the first, and the third is
another repetition or a contrast. The couplet
( a verse of two rhyming lines) immortalizes
truth or literary beauty.

7. SONNET 18
a Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
b Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
a Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
b And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
c Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
d And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
c And every fair from fair sometime declines,
d By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
e But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
f Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
e Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
f When in eternal lines to time thou gow’st;
g So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
g So long lives this and this gives life to thee.