Shakespeare's World

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