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Sonnets
Try to have a conversation with a partner exclusively in iambic pentameter.
You can write a dialogue with each other, alternating lines. Or you can speak
back and forth, keeping track of syllables on your fingers. Count your
syllables and stresses carefully!
Remember that you can’t change the normal stress on a word just to fit the
meter. (For instance, you must say com-PU-ter and not COM-pu-ter).
See how long you can go in perfect pentameter. It’s harder than it looks!
Sonnet Form – Three Types of
Sonnets: Petrarchan,
Spenserian, and Shakespearean
▷ Written in iambic pentameter (unstressed, stressed 10 syllables/5 feet)
▷ Written as a series; hence, they are numbered▷ 14 lines always make up a sonnet▷ Closed form allows poet to establish a pattern that helps
create desired meaning or sound▷ Theme is usually about love--- unrequited love, courtly
love, patriotic love▷ Read lines as complete thoughts—enjambment,
end-stopped▷ Look for volta, shift or turn▷ An epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable
statement
Petrarchan AKA Italian
sonnet
Octave/closed form/sestet
RHYME SCHEME: ABBAABBA▹ Octave ▹ Situation discussed
VOLTA/SHIFTC DECDE▹ Sestet (9th line)▹ Problem resolved or
commentary made▹ CUE – FANBOYS
▸ (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, still)
Sonnet 19 by John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Spenserian Closed form
3 Quatrains & couplet
Interlocking pattern
RHYME SCHEME: ABAB▹ Quatrain 1
BCBC▹ Quatrain 2
CDCD▹ Quatrain 3
VOLTA/SHIFTE E▹ Couplet (13th line)▹ CUE – FANBOYS
▸ (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, still)
From Amoretti Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599)
What guile is this, that those her golden tressesShe doth attire under a net of gold;And with sly skill so cunningly them dresses,That which is gold or hair, may scarce be told?Is it that men’s frail eyes, which gaze too bold,She may entangle in that golden snare;And being caught may craftily enfoldTheir weaker hearts, which are not yet well aware?Take heed therefore, mine eyes, how ye do stareHenceforth too rashly on that guileful net,In which if ever ye entrapped are,Out of her bands ye by no means shall get.
Folly it were for any being free,To covet fetters, though they golden be.
Shakespearean -AKA English
Sonnet- 3 Quatrains &
couplet-Epigrammatic
end
RHYME SCHEME: ABAB▹ Quatrain 1
CDCD▹ Quatrain 2
EFEF▹ Quatrain 3
VOLTA/SHIFTGG▹ Couplet (13th line)▹ CUE – FANBOYS
▸ (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, still)
To FannyJohn Keats (1795-1821)
I cry your mercy–pity–love!–aye, love!Merciful love that tantalizes not,One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,Unmasked, and being seen–without a blot!O! let me have thee whole,–all–all–be mine!That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zestOf love, your kiss,–those hands, those eyes divine,That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,–Yourself–your soul–in pity give me all.Withhold no atom’s atom or I die,Or living on perhaps, your wretched thrall,Forget, in the mist of idle misery,
Life’s purposes,–the palate of my mindLosing its gist, and my ambition blind!
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