ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Enjambment, Tercet, Sestet

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins

Document Summary

The sonnet: a 14-line lyric poem, typically in iambic pentameter, with a strict and intricate rhyme scheme. Traditionally, the sonnet has an "argument": the first part introduces a "problem," and the second offers a "resolution: the transition from problem to resolution is called the "turn" or "volta" Italian (or petrarchan): two sections an octave (abbaabba) and a sestet (cddcee or cdcdcd or cdecde) John keats, bright star (1838; written 1818 1820: form: english/shakespearean sonnet, metre: iambic pentameter, stanzas: 3 quatrains + couplet, rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg, useful terms, apostrophe. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil: turn or volta, paradox, rhyme and half-rhyme, god"s grandeur, the world is charged with the grandeur of god, crushed. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; b. It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil b. Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; a.