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Explanation:
common:
1. All Shakespearean sonnets have 14 lines
2. All Shakespearean sonnets are written in iambic pentameter
(Find out more about what a sonnet is, and iambic pentameter, or discover some wonderful sonnet examples from a variety of poets.)
The 14 lines of the sonnet consist of four divisions, known as ‘quatrains’. The first three of the four sonnet divisions/quatrains have the same rhyme scheme, whilst the fourth and last division/quatrain has a different rhyme scheme:
All Shakespearean sonnets follow this 14 line pattern and rhyming structure. So, now you have the basics, here are the three simple steps to have you writing your own sonnet in no time:
1. Think of an idea for your sonnet
Your sonnet must be about one single idea. It could be a feeling, like being in love. It could be some thought you’ve had about life, or about a person or about people in general. It could be about one of your favourite subjects – sport, music, movies, nature, a book you’ve read, etc.
2. Your sonnet must rhyme in a specific pattern
Your 14 line sonnet must be written in three sets of four lines and one set of two lines.
1. The first quatrain will have lines that end in a rhyme scheme like this: ABAB, for example, ‘day’, ‘temperate’, ‘may’, ‘date’.
2. The second quatrain will use different words to rhyme scheme like this: CDCD, for example, ‘shines’, ‘dimmed’, ‘declines’, ‘untrimmed’.
3. The third quatrain needs different words again, to rhyme scheme like this: EFEF, for example, ‘fade’, ‘lowest’, ‘shade’, ‘growest’.
4. You now have your three Shakespearean quatrains – that’s 12 lines. Remember that a Shakespearean sonnet always has 14 lines, so you need two final lines – called a couplet. The rhyme scheme for this is GG, using words you haven’t used in the rhyming so far, for example, ‘see’ and thee’.
The rhyme pattern of your 14 line sonnet should now look like this: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Simple, isn’t it?
Let’s look at a Shakespeare sonnet 18 to understand how the rhyming works, and how the message evolves:
First quatrain
A: Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
B: Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
A: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
B: And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Second quatrain
C: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
D: And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;
C: And every fair from fair sometime declines,
D: By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
Third quatrain
E: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
F: Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
E: Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
F: When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
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