 Aim: How can we analyze Shakespearean sonnets?  Do Now:  What is the purpose of a sonnet?  What do you know about a Shakespearean sonnet?

 Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan) abba abba cde cde  Spenserian Sonnet (Edmund Spenser) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee  Shakespearean Sonnet

 2 lines--Couplet  3 lines--Tercet  4 lines--Quatrain  5 lines--Quintain  6 lines --Sestet

 3 Quatrains  1 Couplet

 Whose woods these are I think I know  His house is in the village though  He will not see me stopping here  To watch his woods fill up with snow

Foot typeStyleStress patternSyllable count IambIambic Unstressed + Stressed Two TrocheeTrochaic Stressed + Unstressed Two SpondeeSpondaicStressed + StressedTwo Anapest or anapaestAnapestic Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed Three DactylDactylic Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed Three AmphibrachAmphibrachic Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed Three Pyrrhic Unstressed + Unstressed Two

 Rhyme Scheme—Last word in each line. Each new rhyme counts for a new letter! A B C D C D E F E F G G

 Anon—Right now  Art—are or skill  Dost or doth—Does or do  Ere—Before  Hither—Here  Thither—There  Pray/Prithee—Please  Wherefore--why  Thou/thee- you thou - singular informal, subject ( Thou art here. = You are here. ) thee - singular informal, object ( He gave it to thee. ) (Use "thou" when using you as a subject, like, "Thou killed me." Use "thee" when you is receiving the action of a verb, like, "I killed thee.“) Simply put: thou gives; thee receives.  Thy/thine-your  Thy before an consonant. "Thy book". Thine before a vowel. "Drink to me only with thine eyes..." When you want to say that something is of a person, you use "thine". "This book is thine".

SONNET 18  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 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; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;  Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;  If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;  If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.  I have seen roses damasked, red and white,  But no such roses see I in her cheeks;  And in some perfumes is there more delight  Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.  I love to hear her speak, yet well I know  That music hath a far more pleasing sound;  I grant I never saw a goddess go;  My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare  As any she belied with false compare.  With a partner:  1) What does Shakespeare say about his mistress? How does she look?  2) List the things he says about her in a simple form.  3) Where is there a transition? How do you know this?  4) Explain the couplet. What is he saying?

 When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.  1) How does Shakespeare talk about his life?  2) Where is the turning point? How do you know?  3) Explain the simile at the end of the sonnet.  4) Explain the couplet.

 Aim: How can we begin constructing and editing our sonnets?  Do Now: Brainstorm what you want to write your sonnet about. Remember: it has to be about love!

Senior Paper Due Final Draft Due Hard Copy and TURNITIN.COM Revised Sonnet Due

Presentation Outline due Poetry Book Due!

 14 lines (3 quatrains and a couplet)  Pentameter (10 syllables per line)  Rhyme Scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)  Transition before the couplet  Couplet must reveal something we did now know; something the author teaches us about love  Use Shakespearean Language!  Use figurative language!