Week 4- What makes a sonnet?

The sonnet I chose was William Shakespeare’s “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (Sonnet 116). Shakespeare’s sonnet revealed the genuineness of love- the realness of love. The depth of essential and honest love. With lines of  "Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds", "is never shaken", and "Love's not Time's fool". All pertaining to real love not watered down, shallow love, as today in society love has altered and took a toll where there is now two types of love- real love and shallow love. Shakespeare emphasized the depth of genuine love.

What makes a sonnet? 
The basic metrical scale of quatrains and the sequence of series abab cdcd efef gg. The rhythm patterns of stressed and unstressed pronunciation and enunciation. The quatrains and couplet within. The ten syllables within each line, otherwise known as an iambic pentameter. These are the foundation of manifesting a complex sonnet that seems simple to create but difficult to construct. How Shakespeare had the patience to formulate each line with diction filled dynamics to reveal or emphasis a mental revelation or mindful creation for his own sonnet's, I will never fully comprehend. 
Although the rhymes and syllables make the physical, structural foundation of a sonnet, the contents within those stressed and unstressed patterns bring out immaterial essence of a sonnet. The flow with the meaning of those simple words creating and building a mental invigoration. The ability to assemble simple words while arranging those same words to create a new found knowledge, adds to the greatness of manifesting a sonnet.