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Shakespearean sonnet's first quatrain usually serves to introduce a conflict or a topic which is later solved or summarized in the couplet. It was derived from the older Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet . Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , created early examples in the 16th Century , but the form is strongly associated with William Shakespeare because of his authorship of a famed collection published in 1609 (see Shakespeare's Sonnets ). This example, Shakespeare's ''Sonnet 116'', illustrates the form: :Let me not to the marriage of true minds :Admit impediments. Love is not love :Which alters when it alteration finds, :Or bends with the remover to remove. :O no, it is an ever fixed mark :That looks on tempests and is never shaken; :It is the star to every wandering baroque, :Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. :Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks :Within his bending sickle's compass come; :Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, :But bears it out even to the edge of doom. :If this be error and upon me proved, :I never write, nor no man ever loved. Clearly, sonnet 144 is in a poem form of 14 lines, 10 stressed and unstressed syllables (iambic pentameter), three quatrains and one ending couplet with the rhyme scheme of: a b a b c d c d e f e f g g. :1. Two loves I have of comfort and despair, A :2. Which like two spirits do suggest me still: B :3. The better angel is a man right fair, A :4. The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. B :5. To win me soon to hell, my female evil, C :6. Tempteth my better angel from my side, D :7. And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, C :8. Wooing his purity with her foul pride. D :9. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend, E :10. Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; F :11. But being both from me, both to each friend, E :12. I guess one angel in another's hell: F :13. Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, G :14. Till my bad angel fire my good one out. G SEE ALSO |