... returned to the compact fourteen lines. In the Elizabethan period the sonnets advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets, though they still carried the Petrarchan conceit (that is to say a comparison between dissimilar things). It was during this time that Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare and Donne experimented with the sonnet form. The metaphors Petrarch used ... had become a cliché in Shakespeare's day and in the sonnet 130 Shakespeare himself plays a joke on the conventions ... of love poetry of his time. For example he compares nat...

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... between lovers. To My Books, as a performance, would be categorised as a soliloquy; the sonnet is used as a vehicle for Norton's thoughts and feelings to be expressed and is comparable to Shakespeare's sonnets. In order to effectively communicate Norton's emotions, the sonnet is structured as three quatrains and a rhyming couplet and does not contain a specific Volta. The overall tone of the sonnet is ... ...

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