1. Sonnets
English Renaissance

2. short poem with a specific point or message 14 lines
What is a sonnet….
short poem with a specific point or message
14 lines
3 quatrains (4 lines) + rhyming couplet
meter & rhyme scheme

3. Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter-
Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
(the beat of a poem)

4. Sonnets….
Foot- one stressed followed by one or more unstressed syllables
Iamb- unstressed followed by a stressed syllable making a foot

5. Meter continued- Dimeter- 2 feet per line = 4 syllables
Trimeter- 3 feet = 6 syllables
Tetrameter- 4 feet = 8 syllables
Pentameter- 5 feet = 10 syllables
Hexameter- 6 feet = 12 syllables

6. Rhyme Scheme Last word of particular lines rhyme First sound = a
2nd sound = b
c,d,e,f,g, …..
Matching rhymes get the same letter

7. Practice labeling the rhyme scheme
Roses are red ____
Violets are blue ____
Sugar is sweet ____
And so are you. ____

8. Practice labeling the rhyme scheme
Mr. J is a science nerd __
Mrs. J likes the spoken word __
They both like their dog __
But don’t know how to blog __
and that’s why they get called absurd ___

9. Couplet
2 rhyming lines
back to back
Usually end a
sonnet & make a main point

10. Wording
Thee, thou = you
Thy = your
‘ = used to help meter, part of word is ommited
st or t = delete off end

11. Shakespearean sonnets
14 lines of iambic pentameter
5 feet= 10 syllables
unstressed/stressed
Rhyme scheme:
ababcdcdefefgg
Turn- shift in focus in the 3rd quatrian

12. How to read a sonnet..
1. Break it in to 3 quatrains & the couplet
2. Follow punctuation
3.Reorder parts of the sentence into modern English (sub-v)

13. How to read a sonnet cont..
4. Visualize the scene
5. Put in to your own words (by quatrain & then overall)
6.Usually the same concept is repeated in different ways