1. The Sonnet Characteristics of a Sonnet -Fourteen lines -Iambic pentameter -Consists of three quatrains (four lines) -And a couplet (two lines) -Rhymes: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG A writer’s intellectual puzzle

2. Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?A Thou art more lovely and more temperate.B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summer’s lease hath too short a date.B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,C And often is his gold complexion dimmed;D And every fair from fair sometimes declines,C By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed. D But thy eternal summer shall not fade,E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,F Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shadeE When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.F So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.G Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

3. Sonnet 18 The speaker opens the poem with a question addressed to the beloved: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The next eleven lines are devoted to such a comparison. In line 2, the speaker stipulates what mainly differentiates the young man from the summer’s day: he is “more lovely and more temperate.” Summer’s days tend toward extremes: they are shaken by “rough winds”; in them, the sun (“the eye of heaven”) often shines “too hot,” or too dim. And summer is fleeting: its date is too short, and it leads to the withering of autumn, as “every fair from fair sometime declines.” The final quatrain of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever (“Thy eternal summer shall not fade...”) and never die. In the couplet, the speaker explains how the beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat, and not perish because it is preserved in the poem, which will last forever; it will live “as long as men can breathe or eyes can see.” Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

4. The Sonnet Your Task -In front of you, you have the entire Prologue of Romeo and Juliet. -HOWEVER, you must put the lines in the correct order. Hints: Pay close attention to -line-end punctuation, especially at lines 4, 8, 12 -the line-end rhyming -connective words like and, or, but, as, so, if, then, when, or which at the beginnings of lines A writer’s intellectual puzzle

5. Prologue Group Assignments Group 1 Rory Elise Valerie Danny Group 2 Sarah R. Ines Kaylin Trinity Michael Group 3 Soren Gracie Andrew W. Ben Group 4 Rami Sarah O. David Mikayla Katie Group 5 Ivy Letticia Meagan Andrew P. Group 6 Neema Emma Eva Fatima Group 7 Elyon Samantha Annie Emmalie Group 8 Isaiah Julia Syrie Dakota

6. Prologue Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?