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An Introduction to Sonnets

An Introduction to Sonnets.    ”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…”. What is a sonnet?. Sonnets are poems that meet the following rules: All sonnets are 14 lines long.

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An Introduction to Sonnets

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  1. An Introduction to Sonnets    ”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…”

  2. What is a sonnet? Sonnets are poems that meet the following rules: • All sonnets are 14 lines long. • Sonnets in English are written in iambic pentameter, which means that each line has 10 syllables, alternating in an unstressed/stressed pattern. • Sonnets follow a predetermined rhyme scheme; the rhyme pattern determines if the sonnet is Petrarchan (Italian), or Shakespearean (more on this later) • All sonnets are characterized by a “turn” located at a designated point in the sonnet. • The theme of the poem can be found in the couplet at the end of the poem.

  3. The two major sonnet forms: Petrarchan (Italian) A B B A Octave (8 lines) A B B A The TURN C D E C Sestet (6 lines) D E Shakespearean A B A B C D C 3 quatrains D E F The TURN E F G Rhyming G Couplet

  4. Iambic Pentameter • Each line has 10 syllables (5 feet) • A foot is an unstressed syllable followed by an stressed syllable, as in the words: • beware • until • respond Example: Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land;

  5. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18Shall 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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