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Intro to Sonnets

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Intro to Sonnets

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  1. What is a sonnet? • The term, sonnet, is derived from the Italian word, sonetto, meaning little song • Two main types of sonnets: Italian (Petrarchian) and English (Shakespearean) • All sonnets have 14 lines, employ a strict rhyme scheme, and a logical structure

  2. Shakespearean Sonnets • All Shakespearean sonnets employ the following rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG • Each grouping of four lines is called a quatrain. There are three quatrains in each sonnet. • The final two lines, which rhyme themselves, are called a couplet. • Each sonnet also includes a Volta, a shift in tone or thought.

  3. Iambic Pentameter • Iambic Pentameter: lines of poetry that can be divided into 5 metric feet with alternately unstressed and stressed syllables. • 10 syllables per line; every other syllable is stressed • EXAMPLE: My name/ is John/ I love/to go/ to school

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