1. The Sonnet

2. Bellwork
The following 4 lines (called a quatrain) are part of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Paraphrase the main ideas + note the rhyme scheme, alliteration, and meter of the lines.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste

3. A sonnet is A lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines
Written in iambic pentameter with a definite rhyme scheme and a definite thought structure

4. U / a gain U / U / im mor tal ize
Iambic pentameter consists of five iambs An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable U followed by an accented syllable /.
U /
a gain
U / U /
im mor tal ize

5. Iambic pentameter U / U / U / U / U /
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 75

6. Rhyme scheme A Shakespearean Sonnet: A Petrarchan Sonnet:
Consists of 3 QUATRAINS and a COUPLET.
Rhyme scheme is: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
A Petrarchan Sonnet:
Consists of an OCTAVE and a SESTET
Rhyme scheme varies but is often as follows:
Octave: abbaabba
Sestet: cdecde

7. Shakespeare’s 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 dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: 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. A B C D E F G

8. Thought structure Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet
Each quatrain (four lines) describes an idea or situation which leads to a conclusion or response in the couplet (the last two lines).
The Turn is a shift in thought or mood in the poem. It often occurs in line 13 (the couplet) but sometimes occurs in the last quatrain.

9. Sonnet 18
The first two quatrains describe the ways in which the summer’s day is inferior to the beloved.
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 dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: 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.
The third quatrain describes the ways in which the beloved is superior to the summer’s day.
The couplet claims that his beloved’s beauty will never
fade because it is preserved in this poem as long as men
can breathe and eyes can see.

10. SONNET 30 Summarize each quatrain + the couplet
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

11. Sonnet 30
In the first quatrain, the speaker remembers the past and laments the damage that time brings
In the second and third quatrains, the speaker weeps about the death of friends and lost loves and feels the bitterness of old grievances
In the final couplet, the turn occurs: thinking of his “dear friend” ends his sorrows.