1. The Sonnet http://www.wga.hu/art/l/leyster/serenade.jpg From the Italian: “little song” Traditionally a love poem with 14 lines and strict rules of rhyme and meter

2. The Shakespearean Sonnet or English Sonnet http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enrodney/Shakespeare/Shakespeare2.JPG 14 lines Rhyme Scheme: ababcdcdefefggababcdcdefefgg

3. http://www.dimd.nait.ca/~charney1/lessons/poet/images/wsp1.jpg Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate :B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summer's lease hath all too short a date :B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; D And every fair from fair sometime declines, C By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd ;D But thy eternal summer shall not fade E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,E When in eternal lines to time thou growest :F So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G So long lives this and this gives life to thee.G Quatrain #1: Quatrain #2: Quatrain #3: Final Couplet: RHYMERHYME

4. Iambic pentameter (mostly) Iamb: a metric “foot” of two syllables: unstressed followed by stressed: traPEEZE; unDONE; puhLEEZE Iambic pentameter: five iambic feet per line ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / Shall I / comPARE / thee TO / a SUM / mer's DAY? Click here to see Shakespeare on Youtube http://www.english-crafts.co.uk/peopleimages/william_shakespeare.jpg