Sonnets

Sonnet - poem of 14 lines. In Shakespeare's sonnets adopted the following rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg, ie three quatrains on cross rhymes and one couplet (type, entered the poet Earl Surrey, executed under Henry VIII).

Total Shakespeare Sonnet 154 was written, and most of them were created in 1592-1599 years. They were first published without the knowledge of the author in 1609. Two of them were printed as early as 1599 in the book "The Passionate Pilgrim." It's sonnets 138 and 144.

The whole cycle of sonnets divided into separate thematic groups [130]:

Sonnets dedicated to a friend: 1-126
Chanting friend: 1-26
Friendship Test: 27-99
The bitterness of parting: 27-32
The first disappointment in the other: 33-42
Anguish and fear: 43-55
Growing alienation and melancholy: 56-75
Rivalry and jealousy of other poets: 76-96
"Winter" separation: 97-99
Solemnity resumed friendship: 100-126
Sonnets dedicated dark lover: 127-152
Conclusion - the joy and beauty of love: 153-154
Sonnet 126 violates the canon - there is only 12 lines and a rhyme pattern. Sometimes it is considered between two conditional part of the cycle - sonnets dedicated to friendship (1-126) and converts to the "dark lady" (127-154) [131]. Sonnet 145 is written instead of iambic tetrameter and iambic differs in style from the others; sometimes it refers to the early period, and identify it with the heroine of Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway (whose name, perhaps in the form of a pun «hate away» represented in the sonnet).