Transcript Sonnets

Sonnets
English 9
Prose
 Any
writing that is not poetry
 It has no rhyme or meter
Example of Prose:
But masters, here are your parts:
and I am to entreat you, request
you, and desire you to con them by
to-morrow night; and meet me in
the palace wood, a mile without the
town, by moonlight. There we will
rehearse…
Where can we find
RHYTHMS and RHYMES?
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Children’s books
Songs
Rap music
Plays
Poetry
Verse
A line of Poetry
3 Types of Verse
 Rhymed Verse
 Blank Verse
 Free Verse
Rhymed Verse
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Rhymed Verse has an even
meter with a fixed rhyme
scheme
•Meter – established number of
syllables
•Rhyme scheme – pattern of end
rhymes
Rhymed Verse
Types of rhymed verse
•Nursery rhymes
•Rap songs
•Shakespearean sonnets
Example of Rhymed Verse:
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
Blank Verse
 Unrhymed
 Usually
in dialogue when used in
Shakespeare
(Characters’ speech)
 It elevates ordinary speech into
vivid and descriptive language
Example of Blank Verse
If then true lovers have been ever crossed,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts, and dreams and
signs,
Wishes, and tears, poor Fancy’s followers.
Hermia Act I, scene i
Free Verse
 No
real rhythm or pattern
 Words can be put
together in all sorts of
ways…
Example of Free Verse
Wind
Blowing briskly
Leaves fall
From
The
Trees
We Rake
Colored Leaves
In
A
Big
Pile
And Jump
e.e. cummings
Other forms of Poetry
 Often
use a specific meter
and/or a specific rhyme
•BUT they do not HAVE
to be rhymed verse
What might meter and rhyme do
to the language?
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Create special effects in
writing
Change the mood
Show comedy, humor or
parody
Examples of other forms:
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
Examples of other forms:
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire;
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon’s sphere.
Fairies, 2.1.2-7
Shakespearean Sonnet
14 line poem written in
iambic pentameter.
 It has a Rhyme Scheme
of abab, cdcd, efef, gg
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Shakespearean Sonnet
 It
can be divided into
3 quatrains and a couplet
•Quatrain = 4 lines
•Couplet = 2 lines
Shakespearean Sonnet
 Iambic
- the meter (the
rhythm of the poem)
•Two syllables
•First is unstressed and
second is stressed
- Light/hard
Shakespearean Sonnet
 Pentameter
the number of feet in a line
• Foot – each group of syllables
containing one unstressed and one
stressed syllable
 Pentameter
has 5 (penta)
meters/feet
KEEP THESE NOTES
FOR A TEST NEXT
WEEK AND…..
LET’S LOOK AT ONE OF
SHAKESPEARES’S
SONNETS