Sonnet

A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.When I consider how my light is spent (A) Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (B) And that one talent which is death to hide, (B) Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (A)To serve therewith my Maker, and present (A) My true account, lest he returning chide; (B) 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' (B) I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (A)That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need (C) Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (D) Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (E)Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (C) And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (D) They also serve who only stand and wait.' (E)Let me not to the marriage of true minds (A)Admit impediments, love is not love (B)*Which alters when it alteration finds, (A)Or bends with the remover to remove. (B)*O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (C)**That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (D)***It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (C)**Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (D)***Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (E)Within his bending sickle's compass come, (F)*Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (E)But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (F)*If this be error and upon me proved, (G)*I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (G)** PRONUNCIATION/RHYME: Note changes in pronunciation since composition.** PRONUNCIATION/METER: 'Fixed' pronounced as two-syllables, 'fix-ed'. *** RHYME/METER: Feminine-rhyme-ending, eleven-syllable alternative.Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily handsHappy ye leaves. whenas those lily hands, (A)Which hold my life in their dead doing might, (B)Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands, (A)Like captives trembling at the victor's sight. (B)And happy lines on which, with starry light, (B)Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,(C)And read the sorrows of my dying sprite, (B)Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book. (C)And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook (C)Of Helicon, whence she derived is, (D)When ye behold that angel's blessed look, (C)My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss. (D)Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone, (E)Whom if ye please, I care for other none. (E)ڈبکںیپسِ پردہ کِسی نے میرے ارمانوں کی محفِل کو،کچھ اِس انداز سے دیکھا، کچھ ایسے طور سے دیکھا،غُبارِ آہ سے دے کر جلا آئینۂ دل کو،ہر اِک صورت کو میں نے خوب دیکھا، غور سے دیکھانظر آئی نہ وہ صورت ، مجھے جس کی تمنّا تھیبہت ڈھُونڈا کیا گلشن میں، ویرانے میں، بستی میںمنّور شمعِ مہر و ماہ سے دِن رات دُنیا تھیمگر چاروں طرف تھا گُھپ اندھیرا میری ہستی میںدلِ مجبور کو مجروحِ اُلفت کر دیا کِس نےمرے احساس کی گہرایوں میں ہے چُبھن غم کیمٹا کر جسم، میری روح کو اپنا لیا کس نےجوانی بن گئی آما جگہ صدماتِ پیہم کیحجاباتِ نظر کا سلسلہ توڈ اور آ بھی جامجھے اِک بار اپنا جلوۂ رنگیں دکھا بھی جاSonnet 'Dubkani' ڈبکںی by Zia Fatehabadi taken from his book titled Meri Tasveer A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention. The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provençal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound). By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. Conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. Writers of sonnets are sometimes called 'sonneteers', although the term can be used derisively. The sonnet was created by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian School under Emperor Frederick II. Guittone d'Arezzo rediscovered it and brought it to Tuscany where he adapted it to his language when he founded the Siculo-Tuscan School, or Guittonian school of poetry (1235–1294). He wrote almost 250 sonnets. Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250–1300), wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarch. Other fine examples were written by Michelangelo. The structure of a typical Italian sonnet of the time included two parts that together formed a compact form of 'argument'. First, the octave, forms the 'proposition', which describes a 'problem', or 'question', followed by a sestet (two tercets), which proposes a 'resolution'. Typically, the ninth line initiates what is called the 'turn', or 'volta', which signals the move from proposition to resolution. Even in sonnets that don't strictly follow the problem/resolution structure, the ninth line still often marks a 'turn' by signaling a change in the tone, mood, or stance of the poem.