2. What do you think of when you hear the term “sonnets”?

4. Maybe you think Shakespeare is boring, is old, or maybe a little too flowery…

6.  Fourteen-line poem – easy to pick out the form  Iambic pentameter  A specific rhyme scheme  We will focus on two forms of the sonnet – Elizabethan (Shakespearean) Italian (Petrarchan)  There are others (Spenserian)

7.  14 lines  Iambic pentameter  Rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg)  Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet  The turn is usually at the couplet – solving the problem in two lines or in the third quatrain (or both)

8.  14 lines  An octave followed by a sestet  Rhyme scheme – abba abba cde cde (but a poet can change up the rhyme scheme)  First quatrain – present the subject  Second quatrain – complication  Sestet – the turn (conclusion or advancement)

9.  What is a villanelle?  Sounds like a dance.  A French verse form based on an Italian folksong.  Iambic pentameter  Five aba tercets  Concluding abaa quatrain  First and third lines recur  Line 1 repeats as lines 6, 12, and 18  Line 3 repeats as lines 9, 15, and 19