![]() Quatrain 2 My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desp'rate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except. Quatrain 1 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. Here's how the quatrains and the couplet are divided in Sonnet 147: Hey, even Shakey liked to shake it up a bit.Įach sonnet consists of 3 quatrains followed by a rhymed couplet. That is, except for Sonnet 99, which has one extra line, and Sonnet 126, which is only 12 lines long. The first thing you need to know is, they're all 14 lines long. ![]() ![]() So what is it exactly that makes a poem a Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet? Well, they all have the same form and meter, which we're more than happy to break down for you. Pretty impressive, right? We can't remember the last time a form of poetry was named after us. Will Shakes wasn't the first person to write a sonnet in English but he was most definitely the best, which is why this particular sonnet form is named after our guy.
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