Question

Sonnet help.

Answer 1

Read the following Shakespearean sonnet.

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee—and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,;
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

In a well-developed paragraph, identify the couplet in this sonnet, explain its purpose, and discuss its effectiveness within the poem.

Answer 2

@charlotte123

Answer 3

@Oscarmenot

Answer 4

Sorry, I'm not really good at poetry

Answer 5

K, thanks

Answer 6

The definition of a couplet is: two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
So which two lines do you think is the couplet?

Answer 7

ik the couplet is the last 2 lines, i just don't know how to answer the rest of the question

Answer 8

>.< Ok well I am not the best with it, but try to talk about how it is important to it, like see what the sonnet would sound like without it and stuff like that.