Shakespearean Sonnet
- Sonnets have 14 lines
- They are written in iambic pentameter: u / u / u / u / u /.
- Shakespearean sonnets use the following rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Examples
Sonnet 130
(a) My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (b) Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (a) If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (b) If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (c) I have seen roses damasked, red and white, (d) But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (c) And in some perfumes is there more delight (d) There in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (e) I love to hear her speak; yet well I know (f) That music hath a far more pleasing sound; (e) I grant I never saw a goddess go; (f) My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground (g) Any yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (g) As any she belied with false compare. |
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. |
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My college life has left me without sleep.
I study every night locked in my room.
The loneliness doth cause my soul to weep,
The walls at times feel almost like a tomb.
My social life has vanished in the haze
That drifts about me when I think of love,
And hours doeth creep by in a blurry daze
With hope of romance stolen from above.
My health is really starting to erode.
I cannot walk and talk ‘cause I must pant
And wheeze because my bod cannot the load
Endure; and as to run, well I just can’t.
So from the doctor I must seek some help.
I bet he will suggest I eat some kelp.
My college life has left me without sleep.
I study every night locked in my room.
The loneliness doth cause my soul to weep,
The walls at times feel almost like a tomb.
My social life has vanished in the haze
That drifts about me when I think of love,
And hours doeth creep by in a blurry daze
With hope of romance stolen from above.
My health is really starting to erode.
I cannot walk and talk ‘cause I must pant
And wheeze because my bod cannot the load
Endure; and as to run, well I just can’t.
So from the doctor I must seek some help.
I bet he will suggest I eat some kelp.