... the sonnet. For example, the second line of sonnet 130 can be transformed into the following accented patterns. Coral is far more red than her lips" red; The first syllable of "Coral" would be accented and the second syllable unaccented creating a trochiac foot. The last two words in the phrase " ... end-stopped lines throughout the sonnet. Lines 1-6 and 8-9 are end-stopped lines. My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red; If snow be white, why then here breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. Lines 1-4 are identified by...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... blood on his hands, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." Lady Macbeth tries to bring him back to his senses by tell him that "A little water clears us of our deed." However, this does not seem the case later in ... cuts his lines into short phrses, again repeating the words "sleep" and "Amen". He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth's colour" she claims she w...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School