Essay on Sonnet

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Sonnet

The sonnets, 130 and 292, written by William Shakespeare and Francesco Petrarch, both shows their passionate love towards their woman and it is very interesting to compare and contrast the two. Although their passionate mind was similar, they differ in form, tone, and meaning.
First of all, the form differs. The ¡°Sonnet 130¡± is written in Shakespearean (English) format, which has the rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g. It has three quatrains, four-line stanzas, and ends with a couplet, a two-line stanza. Unlike ¡°Sonnet 130,¡± ¡°Sonnet 292¡± follows the Italian (Petrarchan) form. This has a different rhyme scheme that goes a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a-c-d-d-e-e, and it has an octave, the first eight lines which tells the story, and the sestet, the last six lines which the speaker comments on the situation. Although they differ in style, they both follow the iambic pentameter.
Secondly, the two sonnets differ in tone. ¡°Sonnet 292,¡± like many other sonnets, it idealizes the woman by using words such as ¡°the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone, the smile that flashed with the angelic rays that used to make this earth a paradise¡¦.¡± (Lines 5-8) These words give the sonnet a very beautiful and heavenly tone. In contrast, William Shakespeare ridicules the physical appearance of his mistress by using words such as ¡°if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head, I have seen roses damask¡¯d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks¡¦.¡± (Li

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