2006-12-14 08:54:24 · 5 answers · asked by 3344 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If by "Shakesperean sonnets" you mean only the sonnets Shakespeare wrote, then yes, all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets do rhyme. But "Shakespearean sonnets" also refers to the sonnet form inspired by Shakespeare, later used by other poets (It's also called the English sonnet or Elizabethan sonnet). These also traditionally rhyme. In the standard format, the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. The first three groups of letters (representing stanzas) simply mean that the first line rhymes with the third line, and the second line rhymes with the fourth line. The final two lines, gg, rhyme with each other. But none of this means that all poets have to follow standard form. It's very common for poets to break the rules in order to make a point, or to draw attention to a crucially important word or line.
By the way, there are a lot of other things besides rhymes going on in Shakesperean sonnets that you should be aware of. The most important is that they are almost all written in iambic pentameter. "Iambic" means any two syllables in a row, the first of which is unaccented, and the second of which Is accented. So the word "goatee" is iambic (you pronounce it go-TEE, not GO-tee). Pentameter means that there are five of these two-syllable pairs in one line of poetry, for a total of ten syllables per line. Writing in iambic pentameter gets a lot more complicated when you use words with more than two syllables, but that's the basic idea.
2006-12-14 10:21:39 · answer #1 · answered by Leon M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespere's sonnets followed a pattern of 3 quatrains with an ABAB rhyme scheme, followed by a rhyming couplet. Each line is written in Iambic Pentameter, which is a pattern of alternately stressed and unstressed syllables, for a total of 10 syllables per line.
2006-12-14 09:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
abab cdcd efef gg
That is pretty much what defines a Shakespearean sonnet.
There is a turn in the rhyming couplet at the end. So the form reflects the content. The rhyme scheme is very important.
2006-12-14 09:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by jar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which sonnet? Shall I evaluate thee makes use of three quatrains with abab rhymes and an quite final rhyming couplet on the top., so it particularly is ababcdcdefefgg. lots of the sonnets use this, yet no longer all.
2016-10-14 23:07:18 · answer #4 · answered by dusik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some do some don't.. that have a certain cadence do to line and sentence structure.
2006-12-14 08:59:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋