LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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abab cdcd efef gg
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abba cdcd efg efg
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abab cde cde efg efg
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abba cde cde e egg
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Sonnets use figurative language, metaphors, similes, and imagery to convey a message, which is usually more directly said in the last two lines of a sonnet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s sonnets are composed of 14 lines, and most are divided into three quatrains and a final, concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. This sonnet form and rhyme scheme is known as the ‘English’ sonnet.
Detailed explanation-3: –The Spenserian sonnet is a 14-line poem developed by Edmund Spenser in his Amoretti, that varies the English form by interlocking the three quatrains (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE).
Detailed explanation-4: -The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. (1) the brevity of life, (2) the transience of beauty, and (3) the trappings of desire.