What does a sonnet mean? Introduction to sonnets.

1, a sonnet, also translated as "Shanglaiti", is a transliteration of Italian sonetto, English SONET and French SONET. It is a lyric poem with strict meter in Europe. Originally popular in Italy, Petrarch's creation made it perfect, also known as "Petrarch style", and later spread to European countries.

2. Petrarch's sonnets are neat in form and beautiful in rhyme. The main content is to praise love and express humanism. His poems opened up a new way for the development of European bourgeois lyric poetry in content and form. Contemporary Italian poets and later some poets in other countries regarded Petrarch's poems as a model of sonnets and competed to imitate them. Each song is divided into two parts: the first part consists of two four-line poems, and the second part consists of two three-line poems, which are arranged in four, four, three and three. Therefore, people also call it Peterak's poetic style. Each line has 1 1 syllables, usually iambic.

3. Shakespeare's poems have changed Petrarch's format, consisting of three paragraphs and four lines and a pair of antitheses, that is, arranged in four, four, four and two, with 10 iambic syllables in each line. Its characteristics are vivid image, ingenious structure, strong musicality and easy contact. It often summarizes the content, points out the theme and expresses the ideals and feelings of the emerging bourgeoisie in the last pair of dialogues.

4. "onegin Poetry Festival" founded by Pushkin: each poem festival contains fourteen lines, each line contains four light and heavy steps, and each step has two syllables; Some of these fourteen lines end in a soft tone, which is called "Yin Yun" and has nine syllables (the last soft syllable does not constitute a step); Some people who have stress at the end of each line call it "Yang Yun", which has eight syllables; There is a strict coordination between the rhyme law of Yin and Yang and the rhyme law between lines of poetry.