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Sonnets English Renaissance 1485-1660

short poem with a specific point or message 14 lines What is a sonnet…. short poem with a specific point or message 14 lines 3 quatrains (4 lines) + rhyming couplet meter & rhyme scheme

Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables Meter- Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (the beat of a poem)

Sonnets…. Foot- one stressed followed by one or more unstressed syllables Iamb- unstressed followed by a stressed syllable making a foot

Meter continued- Dimeter- 2 feet per line = 4 syllables Trimeter- 3 feet = 6 syllables Tetrameter- 4 feet = 8 syllables Pentameter- 5 feet = 10 syllables Hexameter- 6 feet = 12 syllables

Rhyme Scheme Last word of particular lines rhyme First sound = a 2nd sound = b c,d,e,f,g, ….. Matching rhymes get the same letter

Practice labeling the rhyme scheme Roses are red ____ Violets are blue ____ Sugar is sweet ____ And so are you. ____

Practice labeling the rhyme scheme Mr. J is a science nerd __ Mrs. J likes the spoken word __ They both like their dog __ But don’t know how to blog __ and that’s why they get called absurd ___

Couplet 2 rhyming lines back to back Usually end a sonnet & make a main point

Wording Thee, thou = you Thy = your ‘ = used to help meter, part of word is ommited st or t = delete off end

Shakespearean sonnets 14 lines of iambic pentameter 5 feet= 10 syllables unstressed/stressed Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg Turn- shift in focus in the 3rd quatrian

How to read a sonnet.. 1. Break it in to 3 quatrains & the couplet 2. Follow punctuation 3.Reorder parts of the sentence into modern English (sub-v)

How to read a sonnet cont.. 4. Visualize the scene 5. Put in to your own words (by quatrain & then overall) 6.Usually the same concept is repeated in different ways