How Did Shakespeare Wrote Romeo And Juliet

Many people poetry, but they do not consider the structure in which they write the poetry in. William Shakespeare known as one of the most influential writer of all time. Shakespeare has written hundreds of sonnets and multiple plays. Little do most people know that one of his most famous plays titled Romeo and Juliet was written entirely in iambic pentameter just like every other Elizabethan sonnet written by William Shakespeare. Something even more interesting that many people do not know is that a majority of Shakespeare’s works have been questioned if Shakespeare really wrote them. One of the most famous of the Shakespearian sonnets was Sonnet 116. Sonnet 116 was written in the Elizabethan style that embodied a meaning that has lasted for decades.

The Elizabethan style includes 14 lines. The sonnet also included iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is a rhyming pattern of abab cdcd efef gg (one stressed syllable followed by a stressed one). This style is different that other styles. For example, Petrarchan sonnets uses the rhyming pattern of abbaabba and the Spenserian sonnet rhymes abab bcbc cdcd ee. The Elizabethan sonnet also includes three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a rhyming couplet which restates or redefines the theme in the case of Sonnet 116 the theme is love and it effect on other people. This is also a different structure compared to other sonnets like the Petrarchan sonnet which is divided into eight-line octave, followed by a six-line sestet. Often in the Petrarchan sonnet the problem is answered in the