The sonnet was a popular form of poetry which began and became popular around the 14^th century. It was normally written in a lyrical form and was often sang and accompanied by music. Some researchers believe that the sonnet was used to express certain feelings the poet had. They were usually written in sequences that came together and told the audience a story. The tweet can be argued to be a modern form of the sonnet. Both the tweet and the sonnet have a limited amount of words or lines that they can use when expressing themselves. The sonnet is expected to have 14 lines and be written in one of the three following forms: Petrarchan, Spenserian and Shakespearean. The tweet has a 140 character limit or less. Both the tweet and the sonnet are used to express the feelings that a poet or tweeters are feeling at a certain point in time.

             

In Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75, he expresses his problem by the rhythm he uses within the lines. He begins most of the lines of the sonnet with a spondee. Only when one of the problems arises with the woman he loves does the line change from a spondee to iamb in line six when she disagrees with him and tells him it is impossible to immortalize something mortal. This is the turning point of the poem because the poet is being challenged by the woman he loves. He then goes on to say that he will be able to immortalize her through his words and no challenges will prevent him from doing so. The couplet at the end of the sonnet provides the sonnet with a sense of closure. It does so by explaining that even though death may take them away, their love will live on and it will renew itself in a later life. The later life that their life will live on in is in other lovers that become inspired by their love. The couplet in this sense gives the poem closure because the poet has resolved the problem that was first introduced by the challenges he faced when trying to immortalize his love.