![]() ![]() “ How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)” “ That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)” “ Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)” “ Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)” “ Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)” “ Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnet 33)” “ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)” “ When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29)” “ A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)” “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)” ![]() “ When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)” “ Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)” Here is a roundup of Shakespeare’s most popular sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, with the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg, and the couplet provides the volta in the poem. While Italian poet and scholar Petrarch popularized the form in the 1300s, 300 years later, Shakespeare introduced a different type of sonnet, now called the “Shakespearean” or “English” sonnet. ![]() From the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song,” the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter. ![]()
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