ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cruel Hand, Youth Time, Outlast
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Two division: octave (8 lines) & sestet (6 lines) Precision of expression fixed rhyme and rhythm pattern rhyme scheme, narrative, sometimes it raises a question. English sonnet single stanza that has 3 divisions with 4 line each and concludes with 2 couples (last 2 lines) Gg (couplet: things get shifted, often a commentary embedded in the couplet that makes you think about what you read before, introduces a new idea, reframes the ideas that have been presented in the 3 previous quatrains) 127-154: addressed to someone who is referred to as the dark lady . The fare youth , the young man , the dark lady all betray shakespeare, therefore the poems reflect that. [like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore] Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, a. So do our minutes hasten to their end, b. Each changing place with that which goes before, a. Nativity, once in the main of light, c.