Is there any way of obtaining a list of poetic techniques used in sonnet 123 by shakespeare?
Sure. first, familiarize yourself with poetic elements, and then go through the poem and find them and describe them. Right off the bat, any sonnet has a rhyme scheme and meter (Shakespeare liked iambic pentameter). Here is a short list of potential elements you could look for in any poem: Alliteration – Initial consonant sound repeating in proximity Allusion – Indirect reference to a well known person, place, thing, or character Ambiguity – >1 meaning Analogy – Relationship comparison Assonance – Repetition of vowel sounds Audience – Those for whom a work is intended: different audiences = different approaches Author’s Purpose – Inform, entertain, persuade, express—may not be same as reader’s understanding Blank Verse – Unrhymed iambic pentameter (5 feet/ di-dah) Cliché – An overused saying Connotation – Meaning of a word beyond exact definition—shades of meaning or idiom Consonance – Repetition of consonant sound not first letter of word Contrast – Difference between items Denotation
