 It’s going to be awesome.

 Sonnet: a fourteen line lyric poem, often written in iambic pentameter o Lyric: highly musical verse about emotion Musical: expect rhythm and rhyme Have very clear rhyme schemes Emotion: often (but not always!) about love Unrequited love: love that is not reciprocated or returned o Iambic pentameter Iamb: unstressed syllable, stressed syllable Penta: five times (for a total of ten syllables)  The word “sonnet” is from the Italian sonnetto, meaning “little song”

U / U / U / U / U /  One day I wrote her name u pon the strand, U / U / U / U / U /  But came the waves and wash ed it a way: U / U / U / U / U /  A gain I wrote it with a sec ond hand, U / U / U / U / U /  But came the tide, and made my pains his prey Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet

 Differ in rhyme scheme and content development

 Made famous by poet, Petrarch, during the Italian Renaissance o In love with a woman, Laura, who did not love him back  Separated into an octave and a sestet 8 6

Octave  Eight Lines  Presents a problem  Presents an idea  Presents situation  Discusses idea one way  Rhyme scheme: o abbaabba Sestet  Six Lines  Presents a solution  Presents an example  Presents a comment  Discusses idea other way  Rhyme scheme varies: o cdcdcd o cdecde o cdccdc Volta or Turn: The shift in poem, usually between lines 8 and 9

MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. A B B A A B B A C D C D C D

 Originated, in part, because English words are more difficult to rhyme than Italian words  Separated into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet 4 2

Three Quatrains  Quatrain: Four lines  Develop an idea  Rhyme Scheme: o abab cdcd efef Couplet  Two lines  Sum up sonnet o Theme or thesis  Reverse idea in quatrains  Rhyme Scheme: o gg Volta, or turn, can take place between any rhyming group. (Most often between lines 12 and 13)

Against my love shall be as I am now, With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn; When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn Hath travelled on to age's steepy night; And all those beauties whereof now he's king Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring; For such a time do I now fortify Against confounding age's cruel knife, That he shall never cut from memory My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green. A B A B C D C D E F E F G G