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Poetry of beauty…
Be sure you understand all of the information before you move on.
GOAL:
At the completion of this lesson,
you will be able to do some really great stuff!
You will be able to recognize and identify
the styles, rhyme scheme and format of
Shakespearean, Spenserian and Petrarchan sonnets.
Why do I have to learn
this stuff anyway???
HERE WE GO….
Our first objective is to learn what a sonnet
is and how many lines of verse it contains.
REMEMBER…
I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!!
Sonnet means “little song.”
OR
A COUPLET is 2 lines
(Get it??? A COUPLE is made of TWO)
An OCTAVE is 8 lines
(Remember, an OCTopus has EIGHT legs)
HERE’S A HINT:
Remember, the combination of lines
in a sonnet must equal 14.
ABSOLUTELY!
HERE WE GO…
WHAT IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER?
Firstly, it is pronounced:
EYE-AM-BICK PEN-TAM-EH-TER
Impressive, huh????
Here is an example…
Count the number of syllables in your head:
TRY AGAIN…
Here’s a hint:
I know…
Isn’t this good stuff??
Here is your new objective:
You will be able to recognize the rhyme scheme
and characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Sonnet by Spenser
Of this worlds theatre in which we stay,
stay A
My love like the spectator idly sits B
Beholding me that all the pageants play,
play A
Disguising diversely my troubled wits.
wits B
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,fits B
And mask in mirth like to a comedy:
comedy C
Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits,
flits B
I wail and make my woes a tragedy.
tragedy C
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye,eye C
Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart:
smart D
But when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry C
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart. heart D
What then can move her? If nor mirth nor moan, moan E
She is no woman, but a senseless stone.
stone E
Take a gander at this poem.
Even though it was not written by Edmund Spenser,
it is still considered a Spenserian poem!
To be in heaven for one more moment A
With my sweetest angel of desire. B
To be fused in his wings on an ascent A
From reality and earthly ire. B
I long to flee the eternal fire B
That blazes and combusts deep within me…. C
And get lost in his orbs of sapphire B
And find my wand’ring soul where it should be- C
On a still cloud on the edge of the sea C
Where I escape the cold, incessant rain… D
A place where I can finally run free, C
Where passion and unconditional love reigns. D
How I long to lie in my paradise E
With my wondrous angel, my guiding light. E
Do you see the rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter, the 3 quatrains and the couplet?
By the way, guess who wrote this?
Yep, that would be me!
Did you recognize that Spenserian sonnets
have a rhyme scheme of
ABABBCBCCDCDEE?
Girls~
You need to learn this too…so when a guy starts
reciting these rhymes to you, you will know all the
ways they love you and find you amazing.
Wait until you see the rhyme scheme for this one….
This rhyme scheme is very different!
Here is a hint:
Petrarchan sonnets are vastly different from
Shakespearean and Spenserian sonnets.
Here we go…
Connotation is another common trait
in all three types of sonnets
Petrarchan Sonnet
That’s it…
You are done!