Continuance

Continuance
Time is the subject of each sonnet and it passes very quickly. Shifts in thoughts and image happen in the two selected sonnets. In the sonnets, On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three written by John Milton and Sonnet 73 written by William Shakespeare, there are a number of comparisons and contrasts in reference to the structure, theme, and tone.
The structures of both sonnets compare in that they both have fourteen lines. In contrast, Sonnet 73 is a Shakespearean sonnet meaning that it has three quatrains and a couplet. A quatrain is a group of four lines in the poem. Meanwhile, the sonnet written by Milton is an Italian sonnet. It contains an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). Obviously, both poems have a rhyme scheme, but Shakespeare’s sonnet has an enjambment rhyme scheme. The reader must continue reading into the next line to finish t...