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'The sonnet is the perfect poetic form to express love.' Evaluate up to four sonnets of your choice in light of this quotation.
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COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT POETRY - THE SONNET "The sonnet is the perfect poetic form to express love." Evaluate up to four sonnets of your choice in light of this quotation. The sonnet is a poem, which always consists of fourteen lines and has ten syllables in each line. It is the ideal form to express the poet's true emotions because a sonnet is a very tight form of writing and it consists of a very compact structure. The sonneteer has to craft his/her expressive feelings into only fourteen lines, which makes the writing extremely emotional and strong. Fourteen lines form a complete poem, because of its rounded structure and its even, structural number. There are two forms of sonnets, one being the Shakespearian and the other being the Petrarchan. The Shakespearian contains three quatrains and one final couplet. All the three quatrains have focused on different aspects containing a slightly different subject; yet they...
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