Shakespeare'S Style - The Sonnet Form And Iambic Pentameter
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Shakespeare’s Style – The Sonnet Form and Iambic Pentameter
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Directions: Divide the sonnet into syllables and label its rhyme scheme.
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Rhyme
Scheme
Two
house
holds
both
a
like
in
dig
ni
ty
A
In
fair
ve
ro
na
where
we
lay
our
scene
B
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