Italian sonnets, generally known as Petrarchan sonetts, follow the basic pattern of eight lines and six lines. Sonnets originated in Italy the 13th century. The plays of Shakespeare are written in Blank Verse.
Blank Verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. This meter most closely resembles the pattern of English speech.
Iambic pentameter is a meter which contains 5 iambic 'feet', which will be 10 syllables with the stress on the even syllables. Confining the poet within a strict set of rules for his composition, creativity is actually released within those limits.īy definition, a sonnet is a 14 line poem, in iambic pentameter with specific rhyme schemes. The sonnet is one of the poem styles which place a poet within a creative box.
