how do you determine the rhythm and meter of a poem?

Question

also how do you translate a sonnet into everyday language?

Answer 1

Here are a couple of sites that should help with meter and rhyme:
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LTVersification.html

http://autocww.colorado.edu/~toldy2/E64ContentFiles/LiteraryGenres/Versification.html

Sonnets:
http://www.sirbacon.org/Sonnet/intro.html

http://www.bardweb.net/grammar/grammar.html
Specifically for help with Shakespeare's English.

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/sonnets/

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