On Sonnets – Hysteria poetry prompt for June

I’ve been thinking about sonnets this month and trying to write some myself. They’re not too difficult, in theory, as you have a defined rhyme scheme and a metrical pattern to follow. If you Google “sonnet” you’ll find there are different kinds of sonnets listed and described. The one I favour, and it is the one you’ll recognise in lots of poems you read, is the Shakespearean sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet evolved in England during and around the time of the Elizabethan era. These sonnets are sometimes referred to as Elizabethan sonnets or English sonnets. He loved the form, writing 154 sonnets. People are still coming up with theories about who they were addressed to…his dark lady? Or his young male muse? I have really enjoyed hearing Shakespeare’s sonnets read by Patrick Stewart over the last few weeks, find him on: So, these sonnets have 14 lines divided into 4 subgroups: 3 sets of four lines (quatrains) and a final rhyming pair (a couplet). Each line is typically ten syllables, with a beat that you can recognise if you read it aloud. A Shakespearean sonnet employs the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Now, having told you so much about Shakespeare let me share a very gentle one by Christina Rosetti. A Sonnet of Sonnets I lov’d you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drown’d the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love was long, And yours one moment seem’d to wax more strong; I lov’d and ...
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