'The wind is a hammer upon the eyelids of this coastland.' 'The wind is like a hammer. A simile makes the comparison in a less direct manner, using 'like' or 'as.' E.g. Metaphor/ Simile: a comparison of two unlike objects or an idea and an object. Petrarch's Sonnet # 61)Ĭonceit: an elaborate and surprising comparison between two apparently dissimilar things. Traditionally the poet seeks to make the rhymes in the seset as different as possible from the two quatrains.
Traditionally the first quatrain introduces the subject, the second complicates the subject, and the sestet resolves or alters the subject in some way.Ī rhyme scheme of abba abba in the quatrains, and cdc dcd with some variations in the sestet. A quatrain is a stanza of four lines a sestet is a stanza of six lines. Three stanzas - two quatrains and a sestet.
'Loving /in truth, /and fain /in verse /my love /to show.' Pentameter is a poetic line with five feet: E.g. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. An iamb is a poetic foot with a count of two syllables, where the second one is stressed.
