Tuesday, January 5, 2016

How one would go about deconstructing a Shakespeare sonnet?Also could someone suggest one to deconstruct (easy to understand!)

Shakespeare's sonnets are very easy to
deconstruct.


They are written in iambic pentameter which is
a rhythm---de Dum, de Dum, de Dum, de Dum, de Dum.  There are three stanzas with an
alternating rhyme pattern---abab, cdcd, efef.  It concludes with a rhyming
couplet---gg.


The problem or question the speaker is
exploring is stated in the first stanza and is then explored in the second and third
stanzas and resolved in the rhyming couplet.


A knowledge of
Old English is not necessary since Shakespeare wrote in modern
English.

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