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Sonnets

Sonnets. Sonnets. What is a Sonnet?. A B A B C D C D E F E F G G. A poem containing 14 lines. Traditionally, it has a strict rhyme scheme. Iambic Pentameter. Ends with a rhyming couplet. Sonnets. Iambic pentameter. Describes a particular rhythm of words.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets

  2. Sonnets What is a Sonnet? • A • B • A • B • C • D • C • D • E • F • E • F • G • G A poem containing 14 lines Traditionally, it has a strict rhyme scheme Iambic Pentameter Ends with a rhyming couplet

  3. Sonnets Iambic pentameter Describes a particular rhythm of words A line contains a series of stressed and unstressed syllables For example Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

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  5. William Shakespeare Sonnet XVII 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate:3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed,7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,11. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,13. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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