![]() ![]() The English (Shakespearean) sonnet is really. In the example below, one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, he collapses several words with apostrophes so they fit within the requisite number of ten syllables per line: the two syllables of owest down one for ow’st, the three syllables of wanderest down to two for wand’rest, and the two syllables of growest down one for grow’st. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in Iambic pentameter, 3 sets of 4 quatrains with a couplet at the end. ![]() Defining iambic pentameter helps us break down two important parts of meter: poetic feet and line length. The term iambic pentameter often comes up in discussions of Shakespeare or any sonneteer, but the meaning of the term is often mistaken or simply overlooked. Iambic pentameter also de-emphasizes the rhyme at the end of each line, since it falls on one of the regularly accented syllables, therefore giving it no more weight in the line than any of the other accented syllables. They thus have five accents per line and their syllable counts are 10/10/10. ![]() This allowed the flow of each line of poetry to seem as familiar as possible to both readers and listeners. Writers in Shakespeare’s era believed that iambic pentameter most closely matched the normal speaking patterns of native English speakers. Each line is written in iambic pentameter, meaning that each lines contains exactly ten syllables, every other one accented. ![]() Shakespeare also followed another rule that was popular during his era but far less now. ![]()
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