NAVIGATION: Index of Introduction to Poetry Materials Index of Dr. Weller's Class Materials

Exercise on the Sonnet Form



For each of the following sonnets, identify the sonnet form (Petrarchan, Shakespearean, or a variation) and construct an argument about how the form helps to support the sense.
  1. Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599),
    Amoretti: Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace")
  2. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616),
    Sonnets: 29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")
  3. John Donne (1572 - 1631),
    Holy Sonnets: 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee")
  4. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850),
    "The World Is Too Much with Us"
  5. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822),
    "Ozymandias"
  6. John Keats (1795 - 1825),
    "When I Have Fears"
  7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861),
    Sonnets from the Portugese: 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")
  8. George Meredith (1828 - 1909),
    Modern Love: 17 ("At dinner she is hostess, I am host")