Name: ______________________________________________ Period: __________ Mrs. Britte English 10 Iambic pentameter: a line of poetry that has 10 syllables. The syllables start with an unstressed syllable, then a stressed syllable and then follow the unstressed/stressed pattern until the end of the line. An unstressed syllable is indicated by a horizontal line like this: __. A stressed syllable is indicated by a slash like this: /. So a 10 syllable line in iambic pentameter would be marked up like this: __ / __ / __ / __ / __ /. The line always starts with an unstressed syllable. For example, here is a line from one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets (Sonnet 18): “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” If you were to put the unstressed and stressed syllable marks on this is would look like this: “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” Try tapping that line out on your desk. Don’t tap on the unstressed syllable, but tap on the stressed syllable. Now, try marking this line from Romeo and Juliet with unstressed and stressed syllables: “Two households both alike in dignity” Can you tap out that line?

Sonnet: a form of poetry most used by Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them. A sonnet is written in iambic pentameter. It contains 14 lines (a line of poetry is often called a stanza). Again, that’s 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. The lines are divided into 3 groups of 4 lines (each group of 4 lines is called a quatrain) and then 1 group of two lines (called a couplet). So, 3 groups of 4 lines = 12 lines, plus the 2 lines from the couplet = 14 lines total. Get it? Here’s an example: Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime 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 brad 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. One line is a stanza 4 stanzas make up a quatrain A sonnet is made up of 3 quatrains It ends with a couplet: 2 stanzas

Sonnet 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare. Label this sonnet with the proper terms:  stanza  quatrain  couplet

Take a look at these sonnets. They are all popular songs that have been turned into Shakespeare-style sonnets. Can you guess the title and artist? The first one has been done for you. 1. Justin Bieber, “What Do You Mean?”2. ______________________________

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