Several computational linguistics techniques are applied to analyze a large corpus of Spanish sonnets from the 16th and 17th centuries. The analysis is focused on metrical and semantic aspects. First, we are developing a hybrid scansion system in order to extract and analyze rhythmical or metrical patterns. The possible metrical patterns of each verse are extracted with language-based rules. Th...

The present paper studies the use of adjectives in Shakespeare's Sonnets (4, 5, 6, & 9), which are chosen randomly, on three levels: grammar, lexis and conversation. It tackles as a literary term with presenting their forms functions. presentation is done according to themes, functions conversation, shown this for forms, frequency meanings sonnets effects studying. analysis Quirk et al. (19...

The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts chosen for consideration in the paper is their diptych-like composition, corresponding to the dual theme of eros and pilgrimage. At the outset, I read the first eighteen lines of...

Using a definition of a sonnet, the number of basic rhyming schemes is enumerated. This is then used to discuss the 86 sonnets which appear in John Clare’s The Rural Muse.

Simin Behbahani is one of the contemporary ingenious and efficacious poets. In her New-Sonnets (Nou-Ghazal), the frequency and variety of allusions are too many, so that the allusion is one of the most striking features of her poetic style. Accurate understanding of semantic capacities and structural concinnities of the word, which has allusive theme, depends on being familiar with meaning and ...

The article highlights the specifics of artistic translation realities in A. Mickiewicz’s cycle “The Crimean Sonnets” translated by O. Astafiev into Ukrainian language. research is based on: Adam poetic Sonnets”; Ukrainian-language version cycle, included anthology “By another’s fire” (2020), other editions translations Polish literature classic Ukrainian; theoretical researches polonists R. Ra...