NB: the above is the English translation of the Italian language by Francesco done by Edmund Spenser.Ī Shakespearean Sonnet is generally written in an iambic pentameter, there are 10 syllables in each line. Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast, That at the last, and in short time, I spide, Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,įell to the ground, and there untimely dide. Of which the one was blacke, the other white: With deadly force so in their cruell race So faire as mote the greatest god delite Being one day at my window all alone, So manie strange things happened me to see, As much as it grieveth me to think thereon.Īt my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
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