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Nana Bosompra
Donya -Tag El Din
Tutorial # 2
February 27, 2014
Comparison
A sonnet is a fourteen line lyric poem of equal rhyming lengths , normally written in iambic pentameter. There are two types of sonnets that are very popular in English poetry. The rhyme scheme of sonnets follow two simple patterns: the Italian sonnet also known as the Petrarchan sonnet after the most influential of the Italian sonneteers. It contains an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd. The fist eight lines introduces a problem or issue to think about, while the remaining 6 lines offers a resolution or opinion. The two sonnets being compred have this in common.

“Whoso List To Hunt “ by Sir Thomas Wyatt and “Sonnet 67” by Edmund Spencer can be compared metaphorically as well as literally. The sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt is about a hunts man who is trying to catch a deer but is not having any luck. “ But as for me, helas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind (lines 2-4). All the chasing is making the huntsman tired and doubtful he realizes that he is so far behind the hunt. Edmund Spencer’s sonnet is similar to Wyatt’s with regards to the deer hunting. The man in this sonnet is chasing his stalked prey that has gotten away from him. He is sick and tired of spending all of his time hunting the deer so he sits down in the shade with his dogsd give up on his hunt for the deer an “ Seeing the game from him escapt away: sits downe to rest him in some shady place, with panting hounds beguiled of their pray (lines 2-4). Another comparison between the two sonnets’ are both authors use a hunting themed metaphor comparing the woman to a deer and the man to a hunts man in