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The Sonnet

The Sonnet. A sonnet is. a lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter with a definite rhyme scheme and a definite thought structure A sonnet introduces a problem or question in the beginning, and a resolution is offered after the turn. A lyric poem.

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The Sonnet

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  1. The Sonnet

  2. A sonnet is • a lyric poem • consisting of fourteen lines • written in iambic pentameter • with a definite rhyme scheme • and a definite thought structure • A sonnet introduces a problem or question in the beginning, and a resolution is offered after the turn.

  3. A lyric poem • Deals with emotions, feelings

  4. Iambic pentameter consists of • five measures, units, or meters, of • iambs

  5. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting ofan unaccented syllable Ufollowed by an accented syllable /. U / a gain U / U / im mor tal ize

  6. Iambic pentameter 1 2 3 4 5 U / U / U / U / U / • One day I wrote her name u pon the strand, U / U / U / U / U / • But came the waves and wash ed it a way: U / U / U / U / U / • A gain I wrote it with a sec ond hand, U / U / U / U / U / • But came the tide, and made my pains his prey • Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet 75

  7. A little video to help you with Iambic Pentameter

  8. What type of sonnet is “What the Sonnet Is”? • What are the groupings of the lines (how many lines are in each group)? • What is the rhyme scheme? • Where is the turn? • Based on your answers, what kind of sonnet is it? Write these questions on your paper and answer them when the sonnet is shown.

  9. “What the Sonnet is” Fourteen small broidered berries on the hem Of Circe’s mantle, each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypso’s tears that rolled Into the sea, for pearls to come of them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold; Fourteen small drops, which Faustus, growing old, Craved of the Fiend, to water Life’s dry stem. It is the pure white diamond Dante brought To Beatrice; the sapphire Laura wore When Petrarch cut it sparkling out of thought; The ruby Shakespeare hewed from his heart’s core; The dark, deep emerald that Rossetti wrought For his own soul, to wear for evermore. ~Eugene Lee-Hamilton

  10. What type of sonnet is “What the Sonnet Is”? Lines are in an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). Fourteen small broidered berries on the hem Of Circe’s mantle, each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypso’s tears that rolled Into the sea, for pearls to come of them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold; Fourteen small drops, which Faustus, growing old, Craved of the Fiend, to water Life’s dry stem. It is the pure white diamond Dante brought To Beatrice; the sapphire Laura wore When Petrarch cut it sparkling out of thought; The ruby Shakespeare hewed from his heart’s core; The dark, deep emerald that Rossetti wrought For his own soul, to wear for evermore.

  11. What type of sonnet is “What the Sonnet Is”? • Rhyme scheme is abbaabba cdcdcd. Fourteen small broidered berries on the hem Of Circe’s mantle, each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypso’s tears that rolled Into the sea, for pearls to come of them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold; Fourteen small drops, which Faustus, growing old, Craved of the Fiend, to water Life’s dry stem. It is the pure white diamond Dante brought To Beatrice; the sapphire Laura wore When Petrarch cut it sparkling out of thought; The ruby Shakespeare hewed from his heart’s core; The dark, deep emerald that Rossetti wrought For his own soul, to wear for evermore.

  12. What type of sonnet is “What the Sonnet Is”? • The turn in this sonnet is between the octave and the sestet, or after eight lines. • The period at the end of line eight is a clue that this is the turn, especially because it is one of only two periods in the sonnet. • Before the turn, the speaker is telling of groups of fourteen; after the turn, he tells of who wrote the sonnets.

  13. What type of sonnet is “What the Sonnet Is”? “What the Sonnet Is” is an Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet!

  14. Rhyme scheme • Petrarchan (Italian) rhyme scheme: abba, abba, cd, cd, cd abba, abba, cde, cde • Shakespearean (English, or Elizabethan) rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg

  15. Sonnet 18 Shall 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 often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. A B A B C d C D E F E F G G

  16. Thought structure • Octave/ sestet The octave, eight lines, presents a situation or idea. The sestet (sextet), six lines, responds, to the situation or idea in the octave. • Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet Each quatrain, four lines, describes an idea or situation which leads to a conclusion or response in the couplet, two lines.

  17. Power point adapted/compiled from www.wou.edu/~bgodlev/sonnet_powerpoint.ppt www.schatzonline.com/Powerpoint/Sonnet.ppt

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