The document defines and compares two types of sonnets: Petrarchan and Shakespearean. The Petrarchan sonnet has an octave rhyme scheme of abba abba and a sestet with a variable rhyme scheme, discussing unrequited love. The Shakespearean sonnet has a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg with three quatrains and a couplet, introduced by Wyatt and Surrey to English poetry. Both use iambic pentameter.

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Sonnets

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Definition
 14 lines
 Strict rhyme scheme
 Specific structure
 We’re going to talkabouttwo specific types
 Petrarchan (Italian)
 Shakespearean (English)

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Petrarchan
 Named after Petrarch
 Separated into an octave and a sestet
 Rhyme scheme for the octave:
 Abba abba
 Rhyme scheme for sestet:
 varies and can be arranged in various ways
 Cdcdcd
 Cddcdc
 Cdecde

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Petrarchan (cont’d)
 Main topic: unrequited love
 Octave forms proposition that describes problem
 Sestet proposes resolution
 Iambic pentameter
 Unstressed, stressed
 Five feet
 da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM daDUM

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Iambic Pentameter Practice
 ShallI 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
dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
declines, By chance or nature's changing course
untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor
lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall
Death brag thou wander'st 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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Shakespearean Sonnet
 Introduced by Thomas Wyatt and Surrey
 Different form
 Three quatrains followed by a couplet
 Iambic pentameter
 Rhyme scheme:
 Abab, cdcd, efef, gg