
The ninth line, where the idea shifts from the octave to the sestet, is called the volta. The sestet (sextet), six lines, responds, to the situation or idea in the octave. Italian Sonnet Form-Octave/ sestet The octave, eight lines, presents a situation or idea.Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shakespearean (English, or Elizabethan) rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.Petrarchan (Italian) rhyme scheme: abba, abba, cdcdcd abba, abba, cde, cde.But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

A gain I wrote it with a sec ond hand, U / U / U / U / U /.

But came the waves and wash ed it a way: U / U / U / U / U /.One day I wrote her name up on the strand, U / U / U / U / U /.

Iambic pentameter 1 2 3 4 5 U / U / U / U / U / E N D - Presentation TranscriptĪn iamb is a metrical foot consisting ofan unaccented syllable Ufollowed by an accented syllable /.
