”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…” Sonnets    ”A sonnet by any other name would sound as sweet…”

Pretest What is a “sonnet?” What are the main types of sonnets? A.) a poem consisting 10 lines. B.) a poem consisting of 14 lines What are the main types of sonnets? A.) English and Italian B.) Shakespearean and Petrarchan C.) Both A and B.

Pretest continued Identify the following as true or false. An Octave is a sentence with eight syllables. A Quatrain is a stanza of four lines. The sestet is found at the end of the sonnet. A couplet is a group of three lines.

What is a Sonnet? A very structured type of poetry in which the author attempts to show two related but differing things to the reader in order to communicate something about them. Developed in Italy, probably in the thirteenth century.

Sonnets (cont.) Almost always consists of fourteen lines and follows one of several set rhyme schemes: English (Shakespearean) Italian (Petrarchan) Spenserian

Sonnet Vocabulary Quatrain: Octave: A stanza of four lines. An eight line stanza. Used primarily to denote the first eight-line division of the Italian Sonnet as separate from the last six-line division, the sestet.

Vocab. (cont.) Sestet: The second six-line division of an Italian Sonnet.

Italian Sonnets (Petrarchan) Distinguished by its division into the octave and sestet: The octave rhyming abbaabba The sestet rhyming cdecde, cdcdcd or cdedce

English Sonnets (Shakespearean) Four divisions are used: Three quatrains Each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually rhyming alternating lines. And a rhymed concluding couplet. The typical rhyme scheme is Abab cdcd efef gg

Spenserian The Spenserian sonnet, invented by Edmund Spenser, complicates the Shakespearean form, linking rhymes among the quatrains: Abab bcbc cdcd ee The Spenserian Sonnet is very rare among modern poets.

Identify the Type of Sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art 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 dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.