1. Shakespearean Sonnets

2. What is a sonnet?? The word sonnet comes from the Italian word “sonetto” which means “little song”. A sonnet has come to be known generally as a poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.

3. Format 14 lines Written in Iambic Pentameter Follows a specific Rhyme Scheme

4. 14 Lines 3 QUATRAINS which are made of 4 lines each 2 lines at the end called the RHYMING COUPLET

5. Rhyme Scheme All Shakespearean Sonnets follow the same rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG I will explain this on the next slide

6. Rhyme Scheme Practice When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

7. Iambic Pentameter Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses. It is a series of 5 stressed and unstressed syllabuls in one line. It sounds like this: dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM. It consists of a line of five iambic feet, ten syllables with five unstressed and five stressed syllables. It is the first and last sound we ever hear, it is the rhythm of the human heart beat. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

8. Iambic Pentameter Practice When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: