Sonnets

1. Sonnets

2. Poetic Terms & Definitions • Metaphor • A direct comparison between two things. • Examples: Life is a dream Love is a vale of tears. Life is a hard road.

3. Extended Metaphor: • A metaphor that is extended throughout a poem.Does NOT contain the words like or as. • Quatrain: • A stanza or poem of four lines. • Sonnet(“little song”): • A poem of fourteen lines; usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. • Rhyme Scheme: • The pattern of end rhyme in a poem; charter by assigning a letter to each line.

4. Two Most Common Forms of a Sonnet • Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet: • 14 lines long, made up of two parts- n eight line section (octave) followed by a six-line section (sestet). The octave usually raises an issue, asks a question or poses a problem. The sestet “solves” it or responds to it. Rhyme Scheme: Octave: a, b, b, a a, b, b, a Sestet: (varies) c,d,e c,d,e OR c,d,c d, c, d

5. Elizabethan (Shakespearean) sonnet: • 14 lines long. Consists of three quatrains and a final couplet. Rhyme Scheme: a, b, a, b c, d, c, d e, f, e, f g, g • A third, but less common form of sonnet is the Spenserian sonnet: • Spenserian sonnet: 14 lines long variation of the Shakespearean sonnet but uses an interlocking rhyme scheme. The second rhyme in the next quatrain: Rhyme Scheme: a, b, a, b b, c, b, c c, d, c, d e, e