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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