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A 7 page paper (6 pp. + 1 pg. outline) which examines the structure of William Shakespeare's sonnet 130, to demonstrate how it deviates from the conventional sonnet form established by Petrarch. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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fourteenth-century Italian poet who wrote a series of romantic poems to his lover, Laura. The conventional Petrarch style which was usually followed by subsequent poets was a specific rhythm
pattern known as an iambic pentameter, which is usually five iambs (on unstressed syllable followed by an emphasized syllable) per line (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form). There was also
a definitive sonnet rhyme scheme, which although could vary from one to the other, traditionally in the Petrarch sonnet was abbaabba cddcee (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form). Also, the
Petrarch sonnet stanzas are usually comprised of 14 lines -- one octave of eight lines and a sestet of six lines (The Sonnet: Meaning and Form). But Shakespeare invented
his own sonnet style, in terms of structure, altering the rhyme scheme and stanza measurement, and content, as evidenced in his mysterious sonnet 130. Shakespeares sonnet was structured as
follows: 1 My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; 2 Coral is far more red than her lips red; 3 If snow be white,
why her breasts are dun; 4 If hairs be wires, black wires grow from her head. 5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes is there more delight 8 Than in the breath that from
my mistress reeks. 9 I love to hear her speak, yet well I know 10 That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 11 I grant
I never saw a goddess go; 12 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. 13 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
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