The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. |
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... sonnet - structure is often so dense that it can be best untangled through giving a separate diagram for each subordinate structure . ( One structure - say , a logical one - may divide up the sonnet in three parts : eight lines for a ...
... sonnet . The four units of the Shakespearean sonnet can be set in any number of logical relations to one another : successive and equal ; hierarchical ; contrastive ; analogous ; logically contradictory ; successively " louder " or ...
... sonnet structure . Many of Shakespeare's sonnets preserve ( except for rhyme ) the two - part structure of the Italian sonnet , in which the first eight lines are logically or metaphorically set against the last six . An octave ...