Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2009
The term Sonnet designates that composition Poetics of Italian roots, composed of 14 hendecasyllable verses, that is to say, eleven syllables, which are divided into two quartets and two triplets. In the case of quartets, the first verse must rhyme with the fourth and the second with the third and both quartets they must use the same rhymes, while, on the side of the triplets, These may be composed to taste and piacere of the poet, with the only condition that they share at least one rhyme.
Regarding its origin, the sonnet is a hundred percent Italian creation that has been attributed to Giácomo Lentino and dating from approximately the first half of the 13th century. But of course, as happens with many of the inventors of something, always, those who pick up the glove will be those most remembered and to whom in definitive accounts the perfection of the thing is attributed invented. So a Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto and Tasso they are some of those who impressed the perfection of Lentino's creation.
Meanwhile, the sonnet is one of the most widespread and widespread compositions throughout the planet, which has been known to be taken advantage of by magnificent writers and which also knew how to remain in force through no more and no less than eight centuries.
Contrary to what happens with other forms, the sonnet will not be to the force an integral element of a poem, but by itself constitutes a closed set, a Unit and that it is because of this question that it requires a lot of rigor for its formulation and concentration. The regularity and symmetry turn out to be other conditions without equanom of a sonnet and those that will mark and force the precision and conciseness when presenting ideas.
Within a sonnet, it will be the last verse, that determining part of it, in it, it will always be communicated and will establish what is most explosive and decisive of the matter or question being addressed. The biggest load emotional or from thought, as appropriate, should always be inscribed in the final verse of a sonnet.
Themes in Sonnet