Question

Write a note on Shakespearean Sonnet Form and discuss how the Poet communicates His Love in

Sonnet 18.​

Answer 1

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Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets typically discussed the love and beauty of a beloved, often an unattainable love, but not always. It also contains a volta, or shift in the poem's subject matter, beginning with the third quatrain.