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>Josephine:
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>One way into a Shakespearean sonnet is to think of it as three quatrains
>and
>a couplet.
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>That way you can work on it in sections.
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>Go for the first quatrain, get the rhymes in, never mind the length at
>first, then revise back towards the ten syllables.
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>Then the next quatrain ...
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>Etc.
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>But mostly, breaking the sonnet into sections, rather than trying to start
>straight-off on all fourteen lines, makes it less intimidating.
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>Just an idea ...
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>Robin
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<I find that if I have my subject it sometimes helps to consider the first
quatrain a thesis or statement, the second quatrain an antithesis or
counterargument, the third quatrain a conclusion or synthesis, and the
couplet a restatement of the third quatrain.
Just one example of the sectional approach. Not advanced as a definitive
method.
Chris Hayden
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