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If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet (no kidding!)

If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet (no kidding!). History of the Sonnet. SONNET XVII (17) Mark the rhyme scheme. 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:

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If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet (no kidding!)

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  1. If It’s Square, It’s aSonnet(no kidding!)

  2. History of the Sonnet

  3. SONNET XVII (17)Mark the rhyme scheme 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: Sometimes 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.

  4. Form: • The English sonnet has four divisions: three quatrains (each with a rhyme-scheme of its own) and a rhymed couplet. A sonnet needs to have ten beats per line and the rhyme-scheme is ababcdcdefefgg. • The couplet usually closes out the theme of the poem (like a conclusion).

  5. THE VOLTA * a change from one rhyme group to another signifies a change in subject matter. This change often occurs at the beginning of line 9 and is called the volta, or "turn"; the turn is an essential element of the sonnet form, perhaps the essential element. It is at the volta that the second BIG idea is introduced.

  6. The English (or Shakespearian) Sonnet • Named after the English poet William Shakespeare A B 1 A Three QUATRAINS with three similar ideas B C D 2 C D E F 3 E E G VOLTA happens at the line 9 or the COUPLET G

  7. This is what it looks like… SONNET 29 BY SHAKESPEARE When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

  8. This is what it means… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOCL_NEgf0g&feature=related

  9. Homework • Create your own sonnet. • The handout/rubric is on the table for you. • It is due at the beginning of the period tomorrow. • Staple the rubric/assignment to your sonnet.

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