Today we’re going to look at the three basic types of sonnets. The word sonnet comes from the Occitan wordsonetand the Italian wordsonetto, both meaning “little song” or “little sound”. These days we’re likely to call almost any poem with some sort of rhyme scheme that is fourteen...
‘Sonnet I’, arguably one ofSidney’s best poems, is the first in Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella. In total, it is made up of 108sonnets. In this one, the speaker presents the belief that if his lover reads these lines that she is going to return his affections. It ...