Intro to Sonnets Shakespearean What is Iambic Pentameter

Intro to Sonnets Shakespearean

What is Iambic Pentameter? One type of meter (or rhythm) Iamb (unstressed syllable + stressed syllable) Examples: between, mature, instead Pentameter (penta = five, meter = repeated) So, Iambic + Pentameter = Unstressed Syllable + Stressed Syllable x 5

What does Iambic Pentameter Sound Like? da DUM / da DUM Practice: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; Now on your own: Complete the practice on the worksheet Write your own four lines of Iambic Pentameter Poetry

Lyric Poetry Short poem with a single speaker Expresses personal thoughts and feelings Does NOT tell the entire story Characteristics: Sense of rhythm and melody Imaginative language Exploration of a single thought or feeling Ex. Ode, Haiku, Cinquain, Sonnet

Shakespearean Sonnet A sonnet is a fourteen-line stanza form consisting of iambic pentameter lines. The two major sonnet forms are the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean). The English sonnet is a fourteen-line stanza consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (three sets of four and one set of two lines). Notice how the poet’s thoughts are organized around these four sets of lines. » The rhyme scheme is: abab cdcd efef gg

Sonnet 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. To Do: 1. Mark off the Stanzas (three quatrains, one couplet) 2. Circle the words that show the rhyme scheme 3. Find three examples of imagery 4. Find a metaphor 5. What is the emotion of this sonnet?

Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. 1. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? 2. Summarize theme of the poem. 3. How many syllables are in each line? 4. Why might the last two lines be indented? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5. And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; 6. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Draw lines between the lines to show where you would create stanzas if you were the poet. Copy down an excellent example of alliteration. 7. What metaphor is in this poem? What two things are being compared? 8. Where is an example of personification? 9. What is “this” in the last line? How long will it last?

Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.