5 Matching Annotations
  1. Apr 2016
    1. wantonness;

      Wantonness means showing no thought or care for the rights, feelings, or safety of others.

    2. Some say

      Some examples of effective uses of iambic pentameter are: Some say| thy youth| some waton|ness and with the first word stressed and the second word unstressed, making a rhythm in which to read the sonnet. Other examples are To truths| translated|and for| true things| deem'd. Both examples make a rhythm but at the end the rhythm ends a sharp stressed word to end the pattern.

    3. wantonness;

      The rhyme scheme for this sonnet would be A: Wantonness B :Sport A: More or less B: Resort C: Queen D: esteem'd C: Seen D: Deem'd E: Betray F: Translate E: Away F: State G: Sort G: Report

      All the words rhyme with each other in a pattern.

    4. But do not so; I love thee in such sort

      This would the the volta in the sonnet, because before it would describe the faults within a person, " Some say thy fault is youth," But at that part the sonnet begins to talk about how much he loves her despite her flaws.

    1. In that sense, Shakespeare is the quintessentially American author.”

      So, in a sense the author of the article is saying that William Shakespeare is an american author because he shares a culture and language with the Americans?