February 26, 2014 Quatrains, Cinquains and Sonnets H omework: S tart memorizing your poem. Be ready to recite it and discuss it for Friday's POETRY CAFE. Unit 4 vocabulary quiz next Tuesday, March 4th. Poetry test on Wednesday, March 5th! Objective: I can identify the elements of a quatrain, cinquain and sonnet. Warm Up (in your composition book) In your comp book, copy down the following terms. Leave room for definitions! QUATRAIN CINQUAIN SONNET

quatrain a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

An example of an AABB rhyme scheme can be found in Donna Brock’s "The Mountain" The mountain frames the sky,A As a shadow of an eagle flies by,A With clouds hanging at its edge,B A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge.B

An example of an ABAB rhyme scheme can be found in the first quatrain of Shakespeare’s 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 all too short a dateB

cinquain a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.

THE RULES OF A CINQUAIN A traditional cinquain, as it was defined by the poet who invented it, looks like this...These are the rules: Cinquains are five lines long. They have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and just 2 in the last line. Cinquains do not need to rhyme, but you can include rhymes if you want to.

Ice cream cinquain Ice cream. Cold and yummy. I love its sweet richness as it finds its way into my tummy.

My Messy Room My room is such a mess. Toys all over the place. Mom says, “Clean up!” But I like it like this.

sonnet a 14 line poem that expresses a single thought, idea, or sentiment (feeling about something), usually written in iambic pentameter.

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning H ow do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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Sonnet William Shakespeare L et me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Homework: St art memorizing your poem. Be ready to recite it and discuss it for Friday's POETRY CAFE. Unit 4 vocabulary quiz next Tuesday, March 4th. Poetry test on Wednesday, March 5th!