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Welcome to the land of symbols, imagery, and wordplay. Before
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thorny academic terminology ahead. Never fear, Shmoop is here.
Check out our... Form and Meter Shakespearean SonnetThere are
lots of different ways to write a sonnet, which is basically a
kind of short poem. Shakespeare's sonnets have a very specific
form, though, and scholars have named tha... This speaker sounds
like the guy at the back of your class who is always cracking
jokes. He can't stand to do anything the way other people do,
and even when he's supposed to be serious, he has to... Though
no setting is explicitly stated, we're imagining this poem set
in a courtroom. We know it'