Shakespearean Sonnets

It fades with time

It is eternal through poetry

It is dependent on nature

It is only temporary

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iambic pentameter

trochaic quadmeter

spondaic pentameter

dactylic trimeter

Ronsard

Petrarch

Dante Alighieri

Shakespeare 

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She is more beautiful

She is as beautiful

She does not rival their beauty

She combines them all into her special beauty

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He wrote about his pet dog instead of a person to mock tradition. 

He wrote about someone he hated to show his dislike of typical sonnets. 

He did not break tradition. He stayed in tradition to show others he could do it. 

He compared a woman to nature, but said she could not compare to nature's beauty as a way to critique other sonnet's unrealistic comparisons. 

Shakespearean, because he created that sonnet. 

Shakespearean, because he is the only published poet we have of sonnets.

Shakespearean, because he is the most well-known sonnet writer. 

Petrarchan, because he created the sonnet. 

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