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The poem I found interesting and chose to analyze is “Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare. In this poem Shakespeare is referring to himself as being unhappy in the beginning and towards the end of the poem he has a change of heart and he is grateful again. We will go in depth on some key elements in this poem to get a better insight as to what it all means.
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The form of this poem is a Sonnet. A sonnet is a highly structured form of lyric poetry, which contains 14 lines and usually the same meter (rhythm pattern) also known as the iambic pentameter (Clugston, 2010). In the case of Sonnet 29, it is in English form or Shakespearean in other words. The English sonnet is interesting because it the first 12 lines are divided in 4 quatrains (stanzas containing four lines) and the last two lines are known as the rhyming couplets, unlike its Italian counterpart which the first eight lines are known as an octave and the last six are a sestet. The iambic pentameter is a line with 10 syllables, arranged in a pattern in which an un-emphasized syllable is followed by an emphasized syllab...

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