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Title: Shakespeare Sonnets

Title: Shakespeare Sonnets. English Year 8. William Shakespeare: Copy everything that is underlined on 19R. What is a sonnet?. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. Iambic what? Oh dear, this is going to be a weird lesson!. Pentameter?.

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Title: Shakespeare Sonnets

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  1. Title: Shakespeare Sonnets English Year 8

  2. William Shakespeare: Copy everything that is underlined on 19R

  3. What is a sonnet? A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. Iambic what? Oh dear, this is going to be a weird lesson!

  4. Pentameter? • What is the meter of a Shakespearean sonnet? • Iambic Pentameter! • What does that mean? • Penta is from the Greek for five. • Meter is really the pattern • 1 foot=1 iamb (unstressed/stressed) • So, there are five iambs (feet) per line! • (Iambicpentameter )

  5. Iambic Pentameter: Copy this down! • 1 2 3 4 5

  6. Rhyme scheme • Shakespearean sonnets follow this rhyme scheme: • abab,cdcd,efef,gg • The last two lines rhyme together!

  7. Rhyming patterns • The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains followed by a couplet, the scheme being: abab cdcd efef gg.

  8. Quatrain? • Quatrains are four line stanzas of any kind • Couplet-two lines that rhyme together

  9. Sonnet 116 • Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments. Love is not love (b) Which alters when it alteration finds,(a) Or bends with the remover to remove:(b) O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,(c) That looks on tempests and is never shaken;(d) • It is the star to every wandering bark,(c) Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.(d) • Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks(e) Within his bending sickle's compass come;(f) Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,(e) • But bears it out even to the edge of doom.(f)If this be error and upon me proved,(g) I never writ, nor no man ever loved.(g)

  10. What does it mean? • Let me not declare any reasons why twoTrue-minded people should not be married. Love is not loveWhich changes when it finds a change in circumstances,Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:Oh no! it is a lighthouseThat sees storms but it never shaken;Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured.Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beautyComes within the compass of his sickle.Love does not alter with hours and weeks,But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on loveThen I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved.

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