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Shakespeare’s Sonnets General Background Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets Mostly written from 1592 to 1598 First published in 1609.

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3 General Background Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets Mostly written from 1592 to 1598 First published in 1609

4 English Style Sonnet Written in iambic pentameter A sonnet line consists of ten syllables divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. Iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable. An example good BYE

5 Examples baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM/baBOOM When I/ do COUNT/ the CLOCK/ that TELLS/ the TIME When IN/ disGRACE/with FOR/tune AND/ men’s EYES Shall I/ comPARE/ the TO / a SUM/mer’s DAY?

6 Sonnet Structure 14 lines in a Shakespearean sonnet First 12 divided into three quatrains with four lines each First three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem Resolves in the final two lines called the couplet.

7 Rhyme Scheme Quatrains abab cdcd efef The couplet is gg

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