1. The Shakespearean Sonnet

2. Sonnet 14 line poem of praise that contains A. rhyme scheme
B. iambic pentameter
C. content and structure

3. Sonnet Rhyme Scheme Petrarchan/Italian
Shakespearean/ English / Elizabethan
Petrarchan/Italian
A believe B round B sound A eve A retrieve B found B wound A achieve CCC grow / show / below CDE grow / gap / break EDC break / gap / grow Etc.
A believe B round A eve B sound C words D soft C birds D aloft E song F crossed E long F lost G same G came

4. Iambic Pentameter Iambic pentameter = five iambs in a single line
Iamb = two syllables of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ba-BUM
Example:
My cat is eating casserole and cake.
My CAT is Eating CAsseROLE and CAKE

5. Iambic Pentameter But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
The poetry of Earth is never dead.
the POetRY of EARTH is NEVer DEAD

6. Iambic Pentameter WRONG:
i LOVE you so MUCH, i FEEL like my HEART is Going to EXPLODE.
Right:
my LOVE is LIKE a STICK of DYnaMITE

7. Content & Structure Content Structure Praise someone or something
Shakespearean Sonnet:
3 quatrains
Quatrain = 4 lines of poetry
3rd quatrain has a volta
Volta = turn or shift
1 couplet
Couplet = 2 lines of poetry that have end rhyme

8. 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 ow’st;
Nor shall death brag 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.