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Summary Of First Fight By Gwendolyn Brooks

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While the sonnet has been long revered as the high art of poetry for its emphasis on foot and meter, and strict adherence to rhyme scheme, as well as for their portrayals of idyllic scenes and the beauty of romance, there are outliers that stand out starkly from the rest. “First Fight. Then Fiddle” ,by Gwendolyn Brooks, stands out radically among most sonnets for a few reasons, while it not only blends the traditional English and Italian forms it does not emphasize meter as most sonnets do, it’s topic is aggressive rather than romantic, and it uses various literary techniques to ignite it’s sound and sense. The sonnet opens with the rhyme scheme ABBA/ABBA as a traditional Italian octave does, however instead of carrying on in its traditional
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