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Shakespearean Sonnets!

Shakespearean Sonnets!. A sonnet is…. A lyric poem Qualities: 14 lines Written in iambic pentameter Contains three quatrains Ends in a couplet Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg. Quatrain and Couplets.

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Shakespearean Sonnets!

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  1. Shakespearean Sonnets!

  2. A sonnet is… • A lyric poem • Qualities: • 14 lines • Written in iambic pentameter • Contains three quatrains • Ends in a couplet • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg

  3. Quatrain and Couplets • Quatrains are four-line units. In Shakespearean sonnets, they contain similar rhyme schemes. • Couplets are sets of two lines. In Shakespearean sonnets, they rhyme and have the same meter. Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? QuatrainNo love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more. Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest; QuatrainBut yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivestBy wilful taste of what thyself refusest. I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,Although thou steal thee all my poverty: QuatrainAnd yet, love knows it is a greater griefTo bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury. Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, CoupletKill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

  4. Meter • Meter is a regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables. Meter emphasizes the musical quality of the language. • A unit of meter is called a foot. It contains one unstressed syllable followed by one or two stressed syllables. • An iamb is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

  5. Iambic Pentameter • Iambic pentameter contains five sets of unstressed and stressed syllables per line. Shakespeare’s sonnets and most of Shakespeare’s plays are written primarily in iambic pentameter.

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