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  • Essay / Shakespeare's sonnet 29 - 523

    The poem that I found interesting and chose to analyze is “Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare. In this poem, Shakespeare describes himself as being unhappy at the beginning and towards the end of the poem he has a change of heart and he is grateful again. We'll delve deeper into some key elements of this poem to get a better idea of ​​what it all means.FormThe form of this poem is a sonnet. A sonnet is a highly structured form of lyric poetry, which contains 14 lines and usually the same meter (rhythmic pattern), also known as iambic pentameter (Clugston, 2010). In the case of Sonnet 29, it is in English or Shakespearean form in other words. The English sonnet is interesting because the first 12 lines are divided into 4 quatrains (stanzas containing four lines) and the last two lines are known as rhyming couplets, unlike its Italian counterpart whose first eight lines are known as octave and the last six are a seset. Iambic pentameter is a line of 10 syllables, arranged in a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable....