SDELFD CAMPUS : ENGLISH LITERATURE : SONNET : OZYMANDIAS
A sonnet (pronounced son-it) is a short lyrical poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. Generally it treats one thought or emotion . Often, sonnets use iambic pentameter: five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line. The sonnet was first written in about 1230 or 1240 by a Sicilian lawyer, Lentino.The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word Sonnetto meaning “little song.”
A sonnet (pronounced son-it) is a short lyrical poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. Generally it treats one thought or emotion . Often, sonnets use iambic pentameter: five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line. The sonnet was first written in about 1230 or 1240 by a Sicilian lawyer, Lentino.The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word Sonnetto meaning “little song.”