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2. The Sonnet Form and Iambic Pentameter The Shakespearean sonnet always follows the same format. It has 14 lines, with approximately 10 syllables each line. Each line of the sonnet is written in iambic pentameter. Sonnets are usually about love.

3. A line of iambic pentameter consists of 10 syllables, or five iambs of two syllables each. An iamb is an “unstressed” syllable followed by a “stressed” syllable. When written, the “U” symbols mean unstressed, and the “/” indicates a stressed syllable.

4. The line would look like the following one (the opening line of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18") containing a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables. The unstressed syllables are in blue and the stressed syllables in red: Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM mer’s DAY? Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables makes up a unit called a foot. The line contains five feet in all, as shown next:.1..............2...............3..... 4 5 Shall.I..|..com.PARE..|..thee.TO..|..a.SUM..|..mer’s DAY?

5. Include a volta at the beginning of line 12 or 13. (a volta is the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by. using But, Yet, or And yet. ) Shakespearean sonnets always follow the same rhyme scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG The last two lines end with a couplet (two rhyming lines or a couple of lines that rhyme.)

6. 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 damask'd, 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. Sonnet 130