* Structure: Usually follow a specific rhyme scheme, often an ABBA ABBA CDE CDE(known as the Petrarchan Sonnet).
* Themes: Focus on themes of love, beauty, and nature. Petrarchan sonnets often express the poet's admiration and longing for an idealized lover.
* Language: Often use elaborate language, metaphors, and similes.
* Speaker: Typically a male poet addressing his beloved.
* Love: Idealized and often unobtainable.
* Nature: Beautiful and harmonious, often used as a metaphor for love.
* Rhyme scheme: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD or CDECDE
Shakespearean Sonnets:
* Structure: Usually follow a different rhyme scheme, often ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (known as the Shakespearean sonnet).
* Themes: Cover a wider range of subjects, including love, beauty, nature, mortality, and time. Shakespearean sonnets often explore the complexities of human emotions and relationships.
* Language: Can vary from simple to complex, depending on the theme of the sonnet. Shakespeare often uses wordplay, puns, and other rhetorical devices.
* Speaker: Can be a male or female poet addressing a variety of subjects, including their beloved, a friend, or themselves.
* Love: Both idealized and realistic, often explores the ups and downs of love relationships.
* Nature: Used to reflect the speaker's emotional state or to symbolize different aspects of life.
* Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG