... shalt die" (14). This sonnet is written in a combination Petrarchan/Shakespearean rhyme scheme. This convoluted and unusual rhyme scheme of abbaabbacddcae dramatizes the tension of the fear of death in the octave, sensationalizes the anger felt by the speaker in the quatrain, and hastily resolves it in the couplet. This unusual rhyme scheme also suggests that Death and the fear of it transcends countries. John Donne ... was raised a Catholic but became an Anglican priest. He uses a combination of rhyme schemes to show the religious connection between Catholicism and Anglicanism. Petrarch...

• Word Count: 773
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit ... consisted of an octave and a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde where at the end of the octave, there would usually be a turn in the sonnet. On the other hand, Elizabethan sonnets consisted of three quatrains with a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. The couplet often served as a turn in the sonnet. In ... sonnet 130, i...

• Word Count: 591
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Mistress" to have sex with him. The speaker seems frustrated, impatient, and to feel a sense of urgency in pursuing this goal. Although the rhyme scheme of the poem follows a simple couplet pattern (AA, BB, and so on), two couplets use slant or irregular rhyme, not simply to vary the monotonous pattern but to reinforce the poem's theme. Lines 23 and 24 use the approximate ... rhyme "lie/eternity"; lines 27 and 28 repeat this irregularity: try/virginity." The poet uses pauses and enjambment (running one line into the next without ... a pause) to break up the neat pattern that the couple...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... using its wholesome, pastoral characteristics to explain why the girl should love him. Marvell uses an irregular rhyming pattern as a way to relate to the irregularities of life. Marlow follows a couplet rhyme scheme of: aabb ccdd eeff gghh iiaa jjaa. He also uses connotative and concrete diction. Both authors use metaphors and hyperboles to make understatements in the poems. "To His Coy Mistress ... of Time," the speaker uses optimism as a way to persuade the women that nothing is wrong with enjoying love as they experience it. While Marvell opts to use an irregular rhyme scheme to hin...

• Word Count: 529
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School