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Nearly Everything You Wanted to Know About Sonnets

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Middle English (1066-1500)

Middle English (1066-1500). Timeline . Feudalism-The Pyramid Of Power . Was possible for everyone to move higher up the ranks of the pyramid of power and this is what everyone aspired to do.

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John Donne

John Donne. (1572-1631). John Donne. was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons. born in London to a prominent Roman Catholic family but converted to Anglicanism during the 1590s.

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What is a Sonnet?

What is a Sonnet?. Sonnets are short lyric or sometimes narrative poems Great diversity of form and subject matter Initially about love and courtship Over time it began to be used to address religious, political, and personal issues

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Iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter. A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line. (The prefix penta - means "five," as in pentagon , a geometrical figure with five sides. Meter refers to rhythmic units. In a line of iambic pentameter, there are five rhythmic units that are iambs.)

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