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Monday, September 15, 2014

Golden mean in sonnets

The Volta, or turning point of Shakespeare's sonnets usually occurs at line 8.

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  1. As we know the golden mean is 1.618 which ends up being around an 8:5 ratio. Seeing as Shakespeare's sonnets would "turn" on line 8. The sonnet is also broken up into three quadrants each containing 5 lines. Hence explaining the golden mean of a 8:5 ratio.

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