English Lit - Sonnet

Sonnet

Topic

• The poem is about Clare's joy at the arrival of summer. It describes some beautiful summer sights by a lake.

Language

• Rhyming couplets - neat, sound happy and blissful, this is why he uses them instead of the conventional way.
• Sonnet structure - shows his love for summer as sonnet's are usually love poems.
• no punctuation is used - makes summer long, never ending and overwhelming.
• Rhythm is in iambic pentameter - sounds like a heartbeat and reflects his love for summer - could also reflect the mass of…