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Sonnets

Sonnets. “If it’s square, it’s a sonnet.” Thomas C. Foster. Sonnets. s onnet: 14 line lyric poem focused on a single theme Shakespearean sonnet: t hree quatrains (four lines) + a couplet rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg Petrarchan sonnet: An octave (eight lines) + a sestet (six lines)

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets “If it’s square, it’s a sonnet.” Thomas C. Foster

  2. Sonnets • sonnet:14 line lyric poem focused on a single theme • Shakespearean sonnet: • three quatrains (four lines) + a couplet • rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg • Petrarchan sonnet: • An octave (eight lines) + a sestet (six lines) • rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde OR abbaabbacdcdcd

  3. Sonnets • turn:resolution or answer to idea posed in first part of sonnet • The sestet usually answers the octave • The couplet usually resolves the previous 12 lines • Shakespearean sonnets sometimes have two turns

  4. Sonnets rhyme scheme:regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (indicated by letter notation): The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, a The furrow followed free; b We were the first that ever burst c Into that silent sea. b

  5. Sonnets • scansion:a method of study that measures rhythms in a poem • Separates metrical feet • Counts syllables • Marks accented syllables • Indicates pauses

  6. Sonnets iambic pentameter:a line of poetry with five iambs • an iamb is a metrical foot, or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable • pentameter means there are five such feet in a line

  7. Sonnets iambic pentameter examples: I went / uptown / to buy / a loaf / of bread Forlorn! / The ve/ ryword / is like / a bell To toll / me back / from thee / to my / sole self!

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