Compare and contrast pre Twentieth century Poetry ‘Sonnet’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘Sonnet 18’ by William Shakespeare ‘‘Assist me some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter. Devise, wit, write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.’’ William Shakespeare-‘Love Labour’s Lost’ The English Sonnet is poem form consisting of 14 lines, each with 10 stressed and unstressed syllables known as iambic pentameter, with set rhyme of: a b a …showed first 75 words of 1651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1651 total…the event-‘mean’, ‘meant’ and much’). The allegory is simple and is that the insignificant things, which seem so trivial, can turn out to be very momentous or consequential. The purpose of the sonnets fabricated by the poets has been accomplished for the muse of Shakespeare has been immortalised as the poet wished. and in a sense Rossetti has immortalised the ‘first day’ and the ‘first touch of hand in hand’. …Now one but knows!