1. Sonnets “Both kinds: Country and Western!”

2. Petrachian / Italian Form –A lyric poem that is 14 lines long –divided into two quatrains (or an octet) and a six-line “sestet,” –rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd) –Iambic pentameter Content –Octet establishes problem –Sestet delivers solution –Volta (turn) in the 9 th line marks the shift from one idea to the next

3. Spenserian Form –three quatrains and a final couplet –rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee –iambic pentameter. Content –Each quatrain develops related ideas –Couplet presents commentary or a new idea –Volta can be in 9 th line or in couplet

4. Shakespearean / English Form –three quatrains and a final couplet –rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg –iambic pentameter. Content –Each quatrain develops related ideas –Couplet presents commentary or a new idea –Volta is often in the couplet

5. Iambic Pentameter A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line. –Iambs= a metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed). There are four iambs in the line “Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love,” from a poem by Christopher Marlowe. (The stressed syllables are in bold.) An example of an iambic pentameter line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / –“But soft!/ What light/ through yon/der win/dow breaks?”

6. Meter Patterns Iambus (iambic) ^ /What light Trochee (trochaic) / ^ Jack and Anapest (anapestic) ^ ^ /on the bridge Dactyl (dactylic) / ^ ^Over the Spondee (spondaic) / /boom boom Pyrrhus (pyrrhic) ^ ^of the

7. A Little Quiz 1. How many syllables in one line of a sonnet?

8. 2. How many syllables total?

9. 3. What is the key difference between an Italian and an English sonnet?

10. 4 Identify the meter of the following line: Jack and Jill went up a hill