Poetry Unit - Sonnets

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Poetry Unit – Sonnets
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Sonnets
Learn:
Sonnet comes from the Italian word sonetto meaning “little song.” There are
many popular types of sonnets including the Italian sonnet and the most familiar, the
English sonnet, or the Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespeare became the most
widely known poet to use the English version, thus its name.
Define:
Quatrain: ______________________________________________________________
Couplet: ______________________________________________________________
Iambic pentameter: ______________________________________ ________________
Sonnet Equation:
(3 X Quatrain)+ Couplet = Sonnet
Rhyme Scheme:
a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g
.
Label The Sonnet: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
Practice:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
Your assignment is to create a sonnet.
Requirements:
1. Must follow Shakespearean sonnet form:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
3 Quatrains and a Couplet
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
A-B-A-B
C-D-C-D
E-F-E-F
G-G
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