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Shakespeare sonnets iambic pentameter1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() This turns out to do something to English speaking brains that's just very catchy. So a line of a Shakespearean poem goes da-Duh-da-Duh-da-Duh-da-Duh-da-Duh. Which is just a fancy word for pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables. And the meter in Shakespearean sonnets, as in much of Shakespeare's plays, is iambic pentameter, which means that every line has 10 syllables consisting of five iambs. So the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. But the Shakespearean stanza (named for Will, not because he invented it, but because, you know, he was the best at it) consists of three four line stanzas and a final rhymed couplet. ![]() A sonnet is a poetic form consisting of fourteen lines and there are various ways to order the stanzas and the rhyme scheme. In fact, such a good question that your seventh grade English teacher answered it for you, but apparently, you've forgotten. Green! What's a sonnet? John: Good question me from the past. That's right, today we're talking about Shakespeare's sonnets, collected and published in 1609. ( 0:17) That William Shakespeare he knew how to deliver a complement. ![]()
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