1. Poetic Scansion Terms
Review

2. NOMENCLATURE Terminology
The next few slides are key to mastering the building blocks of sonnets.
We’re drilling them here… You need to commit them to Memory

3. How many syllables in a Poetic Foot?

4. How many syllables in a Poetic Foot?
Two or Three

5. Specific Poetic Feet Four typical feet are used. Two syllables:
_________ - / Mac BETH
_________ / - DUN can
Three Syllable Poetic Feet:
_________ / FIN ger bone
_________ - - / Mer i LEE Hick or EE

6. Specific Poetic Feet Four typical feet are used. Two syllables:
Iambs - / MacBETH i AMB
Trochees / - DUN can TRO chee
Three Syllable Poetic Feet:
Dactyls / FINger bone
Anapests - - / a na PEST

7. POETIC METERS – LINE LENGTHS
One foot:
Two feet:
Three feet:
Four feet:
Five feet:
Six feet:
Seven feet:
Eight feet:

8. POETIC METERS – LINE LENGTHS
One foot: Monometer
Two feet: Dimeter
Three feet: Trimeter
Four feet: Tetrameter
Five feet: Pentameter
Six feet: Hexameter
Seven feet: Heptameter
Eight feet: Octameter

9. Nomenclature - Line Groupings
2 Lines – ________
4 Lines –– _______
6 Lines – ________
8 Lines – ________

10. Nomenclature - Line Groupings
2 Lines – Couplet (just a couple of lines)
4 Lines – Quatrain (think of quarters)
6 Lines – Sestet (Do not think – sextet)
8 Lines - Octave (think of Octogon, octopus)

11. Next slide required for Sonnet Unit Exam

12. Styles of Sonnets - Structures
Italian Style – P________________
Reads as a ____ part structure
O__________ and a S___________
Anticipate a Rhyme Scheme of: abbaabba cde _ _ _
English Style – Elizabethan – S__________
Reads as a ___ part thesis with a couplet as conclusion.
Quatrain, Quatrain, Quatrain Couplet
Anticipate a Rhyme Scheme of: ab_ _ cd _ _ ef_ _ gg

13. Styles of Sonnets - Structures
Italian Style – Petrarchian
Reads as a two part structure
Octave and a Sestet
Anticipate a Rhyme Scheme of: abbaabba cdecde
English Style – Elizabethan – Shakespearian
Reads as a 3 part thesis with a couplet as conclusion.
Quatrain, Quatrain, Quatrain Couplet
Anticipate a Rhyme Scheme of: abab cdcd efef gg

14. THE END