1. ”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…”
Sonnets
   ”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…”

2. Pretest What is “iambic pentameter?” What is a poetic “foot?”
A ten syllable line, consisting of five iambic feet.
What is a poetic “foot?”
A group of two syllables.
What is a “sonnet?”
A poem consisting of 14 lines
What are the main types of sonnets?
English (Shakespearean) and Italian (Petrarchan)

3. What is a Sonnet?
A very structured type of poetry in which the author attempts to show two related but differing things to the reader in order to communicate something about them.
Developed in Italy, probably in the
thirteenth century.

4. Sonnets (cont.)
Almost always consists of fourteen lines and follows one of several set rhyme schemes:
English (Shakespearean)
Italian (Petrarchan)

5. Sonnet Vocabulary Quatrain: Octave: A stanza of four lines.
An eight line stanza. Used primarily to denote the first eight-line division of the Italian Sonnet as separate from the last six-line division, the sestet.

6. Vocab. (cont.) Sestet: Volta:
The second six-line division of an Italian Sonnet. Following the eight-line division (octave), the sestet usually makes specific a general statement that has been presented in the octave or indicates the personal emotion of the author in a situation that the octave has developed.
Volta:
The turn in thought– from question to answer, problem to solution– that occurs at the beginning of the sestet (line 9) in the Italian sonnet. Sometimes occurs in the English sonnet between the twelfth and thirteenth lines. Marked by “but,” “yet,” or “and yet.”

7. Italian Sonnets (Petrarchan)
Distinguished by its division into the octave and sestet:
The octave rhyming abbaabba
The sestet rhyming cdecde, cdcdcd or cdedce

8. More on Italian Sonnets…
The octave typically:
Presents a narrative (story)
States a preposition (An idea)
Or raises a question
The sestet:
drives home the narrative by making an abstract comment
applies the preposition
or solves the problem.

9. English Sonnets (Shakespearean)
Four divisions are used:
Three quatrains
Each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually rhyming alternating lines.
And a rhymed concluding couplet.
The typical rhyme scheme is
Abab cdcd efef gg

10. English (cont.)
each quatrain develops a specific idea, but one closely related to the ideas in the other quatrains.
Not only is the English sonnet the easiest in terms of its rhyme scheme, calling for only pairs of rhyming words rather than groups of 4, but it is the most flexible in terms of the placement of the volta. Shakespeare often places the "turn," as in the Italian, at line 9

11. Identify the Type of Sonnet
The spring returns, the spring wind softly blowing
Sprinkles the grass with gleam and glitter of showers, Powdering pearl and diamond, dripping with flowers, Dropping wet flowers, dancing the winters going; The swallow twitters, the groves of midnight are glowing With nightingale music and madness; the sweet fierce powers Of love flame up through the earth; the seed-soul towers And trembles; nature is filled to overflowing… The spring returns, but there is no returning Of spring for me. O heart with anguish burning! She that unlocked all April in a breath Returns not…And these meadows, blossoms, birds These lovely gentle girls—words, empty words As bitter as the black estates of death!

12. Identify the Type of Sonnet
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 owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.