Can you give my an example of a sonnet please?

Question

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Answer 1

Here is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it, too!

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes.

-Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

Answer 2

Sonnet- a type of poetry with three four line stanzas followed by a two line stanza called a couplet that rhymes.

Below is an example of a sonnet:

Sonnet
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
where you may be, or yours affairs suppose,
But like a sad slave, stay and think of naught
Save, where you are how happy you make those.

- William Shakespeare

Answer 3

The sonnet can be thematically divided into two sections: the first presents the theme, raises an issue or doubt, and the second part answers the question, resolves the problem, or drives home the poem's point. This change in the poem is called the turn and helps move forward the emotional action of the poem quickly, as fourteen lines can become too short too fast.

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Answer 4

Sonnet: An English poem of 14 lines, either undivided, or divided various ways, such as 3 quatrains plus a couplet, or an octet plus a sestet, or 2 quatrains plus a sestet, or using 2 tercets in place of the sestet.

The first 8 lines express or create tension, or a problem, and the last 6 lines resolve it.

The meter of a Sonnet is Iambic Pentameter.

The subject of a classical Sonnet is love.

There are three classic Sonnet forms.

Shakespearean - A sonnet consisting of 3 Quatrains plus a couplet, written entirely in Iambic Pentameter, using the rhyming scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. Also called an Elizabethan sonnet, or English sonnet.

Spenserian - A form used by Edmund Spenser. It is a Shakespearean Sonnet, but with an interlocking rhyme scheme that goes a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, c-d-c-d, e-e.

Petrarchan - A sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme a-b-b-a,-a-b-b-a and a sestet of various rhyme patterns such as c-d-e,-c-d-e or c-d-c,-d-c-d. Sometimes the sestet is split into 2 tercets. The Petrarchan is also called an Italian or Classic Sonnet.

One of the finest examples of a classic, or Petrarchan sonnet, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-b-a,-a-b-b-a, c-d-c,-d-c-d may be found in the book "Sonnets from the Portuguese", by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is one of the most famous Sonnets in English, and is title Number XLIII (43) in her book:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Answer 5

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
by William Shakespeare

Shall I 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 ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

That was a Shakespearean sonnet, there is also a Petrarchan sonnet. Both have 14 lines and are usually written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables a line). The following site gives good examples and explanations:

Answer 6

"Shall I compare thee to a summers day
thou art more lovely and more temperat"
Look up Shakespears sonnets on yahoo.