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of poetry. For other uses, see Sonnet (disambiguation). A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; the Sicilian poet Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.[1] The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provenal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound). By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. Conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. Writers of sonnets are sometimes called "sonneteers", although the term can be used derisively. One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them (not including those that appear in his plays). A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet. Sonnet 1 From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase Where better to start our journey than with Sonnet One although scholars believe that it was not necessarily the first one to be written. Addressed to the so called Fair Youth, the poem begins a sequence in which the poet encourages his handsome male friend to breed so that his beauty may live on through his children. Heres the full text to Sonnet 1 From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase: FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

How To Write A Sonnet


Sonnet writing is easy when you understand what a sonnet is. There are various types of sonnets, but Im not going to talk about them and all their variations. Instead, lets focus on the five things that most sonnets have in common: 1. They are written in iambic pentameter. 2. They are fourteen lines long. 3. They have a set rhyme scheme. 4. They have a turn or volta. 5. They all bear the name sonnet.

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