Shakespeare's World
Across
- 1. It is made up of a number of lines
- 2. A stanza of four lines
- 6. ABABBABA CCDEED is an example of this
- 7. Words like "thee", "thou" "thy"
- 8. The way the lines of a poem are arranged on the page
- 9. Shakespeare was born here
- 12. It is given by the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
- 13. In sonnet XVIII Shakespeare compares his .......... to a summer's day
- 14. A comparison often used in poems
Down
- 1. It was first written by Jacopo da Lentini in Italy
- 3. The repetition of the initial consonant sound in a line
- 4. The number of lines in a sonnet
- 5. The last two lines in a Shakespearean sonnet
- 10. In a Shakespearean sonnet it can be introduced by words like "but"
- 11. It is introduced by words like "like" or "as"