Sonety
Sonety
Sonety
The
13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini - it aims at expressing courtly love. The
Sicilian School of poets who surrounded him at the Emperor's Court are credited with its
spread. The earliest sonnets, however, no longer survive in the original Sicilian language, but
only after being translated into Tuscan dialect.
The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (lit. "little song"). By the 13th
century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a very strict rhyme scheme and
structure.
The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian
poet Francesco Petrarca,[1] although it was not developed by Petrarca himself, but rather by a
string of Renaissance poets.[2] B
It has a very precisely defined structure: a fixed number of verses, a fixed strophic division, a
pattern of rhymes sanctioned by tradition.
STRUKTURA
The Petrarchan sonnet characteristically treats its theme in two parts. The first eight lines, the
octave, state a problem, ask a question, or express an emotional tension. The last six lines, the
sestet, resolve the problem, answer the question, or relieve the tension..
The sonnet was introduced to England, along with other Italian verse forms, by Sir Thomas
Wyatt.
In the course of adapting the Italian form to a language less rich in rhymes, the Elizabethans
gradually arrived at the distinctive English sonnet, which is composed of three quatrains,
each having an independent rhyme scheme, and is ended with a rhymed couplet.
RHYMES
Surrey changed the rhyme scheme of the sonnet to make it more suitable to the English
language. Surrey’s innovations distinguished the English sonnet from the Italian sonnet, and
eventually became known as the Shakespearean sonnet because of Shakespeare’s mastery of
the form.
The da-DUM of a human heartbeat is the most common example of this rhythm.
A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM