The Petrarchan sonnet is broken into two stanzas. So it’s not surprising that the Petrarchan sonnet (named after Francesco Petrarca) has a very tight rhyme scheme. “I went to the store, I bought bread” is practically a mini-poem. The sonnet was invented in the 13th century CE and became widely adopted in Italy. Let me tell you a little something about the Italian language here: practically everything rhymes, and words end in a very few sounds (think -a and -o and -i). There are also a lot of variations and subsets of these schemes, but when someone says “sonnet” to you they’re generally thinking of one of these three. There are three major rhyme schemes for sonnets: Petrarchan, Shakespearian, and Spenserian. Now that we know how rhyme schemes are annotated, let’s delve into the rhyme schemes for sonnets. The poem all together has the rhyme scheme AAB CCB. One easy way to see this is by putting the letter at the end of each line: The last line goes back to the long “a” and is another B. That’s our B rhyme, and the “der” in the fourth and fifth lines is C. The third line, though, ends in a long “a” sound.
The first line ends in “fet” so we’ll assign the letter A to “fet.” The next line ends in “fet” too, so the rhyme scheme so far is A/A.
When we discuss rhyming in poetry, we assign each sound that has to be rhymed a letter, in the order it appears in the poem. (Some types of poetry have internal rhyme schemes we’ll talk about those another time.) If you’re struggling to find a rhyme, there are some great resources online to help you find words. I’m assuming everyone knows how to rhyme.įor a sonnet, of course, the words that you need to make rhyme are at the end of each line. Rhyming first, because it’s easier for most people. Now that we’ve established the basics, let’s talk about rhyming and scansion. So what’s a sonnet?Ī sonnet is a 14-line poem that scans and adheres to a specific rhyme scheme. Sonnets don’t have to be boring or trite, and they’re a great way to practice rhyme and scansion without having to write an entire saga. We’re going to focus on the Shakespearean sonnet (for reasons I’ll get into in just a moment) and we hope you’ll all play along. We’re here to demystify the sonnet with yeah write’s February poetry slam.
Does the word “sonnet” scare you? Are you already having flashbacks to Shakespeare and a thousand bad readings at awkward weddings that have already gone on way too long by the time someone compares thee to a summer’s day?
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