In a tweet readers get to know what people are doing at a certain time of day. It's brief, concise, waste no time and has no complex form. However, the way it is perceived may be different. Everyone reads in a certain tone and way. A simple tweet could be over thought differently than what it is originally intended to be. Whereas in a sonnet everything is structured language is used properly and it’s up to the reader to analyze the meaning of the poem. A sonnet is also different in ways so that it’s written as a story with structured language and syntax. It has a structure that has to be diligently followed. However, today people don’t often watch themselves following the Shakespearean structure. Instead they use slang and abbreviations for long words that seem to take too much of our breath away. In a novel it is nothing like a sonnet. Similar only in that they both tell a story, it doesn’t rhyme. Its more like the reader is following the story as it occurs. Also novels are longer than sonnets so that there is time to develop a plot, climax and give closure to the story.
In Petrarch’s sonnet XXV the rhyming words that correlate to the structure are neither antonyms nor synonyms. However, they are used in a way so that the ending words rhyme and are still consistent within the verse. Petrarch enables the last words to rhyme while still making the verse understandable and consistent with his story. In the couplet Petrarch uses the ending words, “strong,” and “long.” Besides rhyming, I feel that there is a link between strong and long. Strong meaning strength and long meaning length. Together both of these words produce endurance, which is what their love will always be. Thus the couplet also gives closure to the poem and everything is settled.
