Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The most popular sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnts, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.
The sonnets are almost all constructed from four- line stanzas (called quatrains) and a final couplet comppsed in iambic pentameter. This is also the meter used extensively in Shakespeare´s plays.














The most popular sonnets are:

             126 William Shakespeare Sonnet - O thou my lovely boy
             130 William Shakespeare Sonnet - My Mistress' eyes
             029 William Shakespeare Sonnet - When in disgrace with fortune
             116 William Shakespeare Sonnet - Let me not to the marriage of true minds

             18 William Shakespeare Sonnet - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

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