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Sonnets

Sonnets. Sonnet. The name sonnet comes from the Italian word for “little song.” This poem usually rhymes, has 14 lines, and is in iambic pentameter. Meter. Meter: meter is the measure of a line of poetry. It is rhythm that can be measured in poems.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets

  2. Sonnet • The name sonnet comes from the Italian word for “little song.” This poem usually rhymes, has 14 lines, and is in iambic pentameter.

  3. Meter • Meter: meter is the measure of a line of poetry. It is rhythm that can be measured in poems. • Iambic Pentameter: The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat.

  4. Iambic Pentameter • "Some GOO-fy GUY said I should TAKE a WALK (now pause)if I would WRITE a GOO-fy SON-net VERSE (pause again)but I don't UN-der-STAND his CRAZ-y TALK (now you're going)and WALK-ing ON-ly SEEMS to MAKE it WORSE" (almost half-way)

  5. 3 Types of Sonnets • Shakespearean Sonnet • Petrarchan Sonnet • Spenserian Sonnet

  6. Shakespearean Sonnet • Also called an English Sonnet or Elizabethan Sonnet. The rhyme scheme is abab,cdcd,efef,gg. The transition is found in the last couplet of the sonnet.

  7. Petrarchan Sonnet • Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, an octet (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines). The transition comes after the eighth line, at the end of the octet and the beginning of the sestet. The rhyme scheme for the octet is typically abbaabba. There are a few possibilities for the sestet, including cdc dcd, cdd cdc, cde cde, cde ced, and cde edc.

  8. Petrarchan Sonnet I Shall Not Be Captured by your Sweet Kiss I shall not be captured by your sweet kiss, although it has me in furious grip, with dark cherry wine the taste of your lips, soft and tender and full of promised bliss. While all the world in this might seem amiss as time in ecstasy wanders and slips feeling effects of a mind-numbing trip, still must I your kiss' power dismiss. For long ago was I captured by eyes, deep wells of darkness so discontented with previous beau's dark and nasty lies. I found in me a heart newly-minted, and a life suddenly leaden with sighs, seeking your dark orbs like one demented.

  9. Spenserian Sonnet • This sonnet is thought to have derived from Shakespeare’s Sonnet and not considered a true Sonnet Type by some. Spencer’s sonnet follows the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.

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