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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Poetry Analysis Guide

Explore the poetry in "Romeo and Juliet" written in blank verse and sonnet form. Learn about iambic pentameter, rhyme schemes, and more to enhance understanding and appreciation of the play's poetic elements.

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Poetry Analysis Guide

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  1. Romeo and Juliet and Poetry Notes

  2. Date of composition: between 1594-1595 • Got idea from Arthur Brooke’s poem “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet”

  3. Romeo and Juliet is written in both prose and poetry

  4. Prose: spoken mostly by common people; occasionally by Mercutio when he is joking • Poetry: Most everyone else speaks in poetry

  5. Prose • Ordinary speech without any structured beat • Written in paragraph form

  6. Poetry • The poetry is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

  7. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse • (Blank verse means there is no rhyme at the end of the lines---Shakespeare used this about 93% of the time)

  8. Iambic Pentameter • Iambic pentameter-line consisting of 5 iambs • Iamb-metered foot composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable • U = unstressed / = stressed

  9. Example: • u /u / u/u/u/ • He jests at scars that never felt a wound. • 1 2 3 4 5

  10. Lines of poetry are either end-stopped or run-on.

  11. End-Stopped Line:Has some punctuation at its end • Run-On Line: *no punctuation at its end

  12. Examples O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, If thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. End Stopped The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. Run-On

  13. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem.

  14. A Shakespearean has three four-line units, or quatrains, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet.

  15. Shakespeare uses couplets to show an end we should note • Somebody leaving a place says a couplet • The last two lines of an Act or Scene are a couplet

  16. Famous Couplet Spoken by Juliet Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  17. Rhyme Scheme is the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

  18. The rhyme scheme of a poem is indicated by the use of a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme.

  19. The most common rhyme scheme for the Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg.

  20. Label the following on the poem in your notes: • Rhyme Scheme • Quatrains • Couplet

  21. Sonnet 29 • When, in disgrace with Fortune in men’s eyes, A • I all alone beweep my outcast state, B • And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, A • And look upon myself and curse my fate, B

  22. Wishing me like to one more rich inhope,C • Featured like him, like him with friendspossessed, D • Desiring this man’s art, and that man’sscope,C • With what I most enjoy contentedleast;D

  23. Yet in these thoughts myself almostdespising,E • Haply I think on thee, and thenmystate,F • Like to the lark at break of dayarisingE • From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’sgate;F • For thy sweet love remembered such wealthbrings G • That then I scorn to change my state withkings. G

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