Question

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONOLOGUE AND SONNETS

Answer 1

Monologue is a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme. In drama, it is the vocalization of a character’s thoughts; in literature, the verbalization. It is traditionally a device used in theater—a speech to be given on stage—but nowadays, its use extends to film and television. Antony’s monologue just after he makes peace with the assassins of Caesar in the play Julius Caesar is an example of the monologue.

 

Sonnet in Italian means 'sonetto' which means a small or little song. In poetry, sonnet is a 14 line poem and is written in iambic pentameter. It has a specific rhyme scheme. 'Not Marble, Nor Gilded Monuments' is a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. There are fourteen lines in this poem. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains of four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes the theme or problem and, then resolves it in the last two lines, called couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab, cdcd, efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg.