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Sonnets |
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| All sonnets have three things in common, one is that the all have fourteen lines, two is that they always have to do with strong emotions like love or hate and three is that they are all in a problem/solution format. |
| The Italian version has an octave (8 lines) to present the problem and a sextet (6 lines) to present the solution. The Shakespearian version on the other hand has three quartrains (four lines each) and a rhyming couplet (two lines). The problem is persented in the quartrains and the solution in the couplet. |
| Perhaps the most famous sonnet is the poem , how do I Love Thee? This poem was done in a modification of the Shakespearian version. You may remember hearing it in the Roger Rabbit movie, but it was not very correct in that movie. |