Stylistic Features of sonnet and Shakespeare¡¯s Sonnet ¢ú¢ø

Outline:
1. Brief introduction to Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet.
2. History of Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet.
3. Stylistic features and analysis of Shakespeare¡¯s sonnet ¢ú¢ø
In the late 1500's it was fashionable for English gentleman authors to write sonnets, i.e. lyric poems composed of fourteen lines, following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes. The sonnet is composed with a formal rhyme scheme, expressing different thoughts, moods, or emotions, sometimes summed up in the last lines of the poem.
It is generally recognized that the sonnet has two characteristic sonnet types : the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean).
William Shakespeare's first and second years in London were spent writing in the Petrarchan style. The Petrarchan sonnet has an eight line stanza, or octave, and six-line stanza, or sestet. The octave has two quatrains, rhyming abba, abba, but avoiding a couplet; the first quatrain gives the the...