The document discusses different poetic forms and poetic devices, including sonnets. It provides examples of sonnets by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Henry Constable to illustrate different sonnet forms and rhyme schemes. Key topics covered include iambic pentameter, rhyme schemes of Italian and English sonnets, and examples of specific sonnets.

1. The Sonnet

10. Marking a Poem’s Rhyme Scheme Lowercase letters are used to indicate the rhyme scheme in a poem. The a rhyme is –un in sun and dun , and the b rhyme is –ed in red and head . a b a b My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.