The Sonnet Form
Form: Shakespearean form
Prologue: Poem with 14 lines in jambic pentameter.
Specific ryme: (abab-cdcd-dfdf-gg).
It can be broken down in 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
-First quatrains: Introduces the poem and gives informations.
-Second quatrains: Elaborates on the details.
-Third quatrains: Introduces the conflict.
-The rhyming couplet: Concludes the sonnet.
Prologue:
Two households, both alike in dignity, (a)
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, (b)
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, (a)
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. (b)
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes (c)
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; (d)
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows (c)
Do with their death bury their parents' strife. (d)
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, (e)
And the continuance of their parents' rage, (f)
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove(e)
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage (f)
The which if you with patient ears attend, (g)
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. (g)
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