Romeo and Juliet Prologue Language: The Sonnet

The video tutorial discusses the form and structure of sonnets, a popular poetic form in Shakespeare's time, often used in romance poetry. It explains the typical structure of a sonnet, which includes three four-line stanzas and a rhyming couplet, and describes a typical rhyming scheme. The tutorial also highlights how pronunciation differences over time have affected the rhyming in sonnets, using the example of 'love' and 'remove' which rhymed in Shakespeare's era but not in modern English.

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