Shakespeare's Favorite Poems

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Poetry is at the heart of music in a lot of ways, from obvious connections like lyrics to deeper points like their shared love of rhythms, so I thought we could take a look at Shakespeare's favorite kind of poem, the Sonnet! Writing a good sonnet takes a deep understanding of language, meter, and rhyme, and understanding how they work won't just make us better poets, it'll make us better musicians too!

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Last:    • The Secret Of Six-Note Scales  
Poetic Meter video:    • A Brief Discussion Of Poetic Meter  
Rhymes video:    • Makin' It Rhyme  

SOURCES:
http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/son...

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