Sonnet

Sonnet

A Sonnet is a poem of an expressive thought or idea made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long. Its rhymes are arranged according to one of the schemes – Italian, where eight lines called an octave consisting of two quatrains which normally open the poem as the question are followed by six lines called a sestet that are the answer, or the more common English which is three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.

To Fanny by John Keats

I cry your mercy–pity–love!–aye, love!

Merciful love that tantalizes not,
One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,
Unmasked, and being seen–without a blot!O! let me have thee whole,–all–all–be mine!That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zestOf love, your kiss,–those hands, those eyes divine,That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,–Yourself–your soul–in pity give me all.Withhold no atom’s atom or I die,Or living on perhaps, your wretched thrall,Forget, in the mist of idle misery,Life’s purposes,–the palate of my mindLosing its gist, and my ambition blind!





I chose this picture because is shows a young couple.  Keats wrote this poem to the girl he wanted to marry.  Sadly, they never married.

John Keats

Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of the tuberculosis, which ended his life.

http://www.biography.com/people/john-keats-9361568