English I Honors—November 19, 2015

• Daily Warm-up: Shakespearean Sonnets discuss several topics, but most focus on love. If you were to write a Sonnet to someone you love, who would it be? What type of love would you express (romantic love, friendship, brotherly love)? Explain.

• Homework:– Reading Plus due Sunday at 11:59.

Sonnet Structure

• A quatrain is a four-line stanza in a poem.• A couplet is two consecutive lines of verse

with end rhyme. A couplet usually expresses a complete unit of thought.

• Iambic pentameter describes a rhythmic pattern; five feet (or units), each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Three Quatrains and a CoupletShall 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 fadeNor 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.

Rhyme SchemeShall 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 fadeNor 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.

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Rhythm

• Rhythm is the flow of the beat in a poem.

• Gives poetry a musical feel. • Can be fast or slow, depending

on mood and subject of poem.• You can measure rhythm in

meter, by counting the beats in each line.

Count the Syllables in Each LineShall 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 fadeNor 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.

Iambic Pentameter

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Meter• Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and

unstressed syllables. • Typically, stressed syllables are marked with /

and unstressed syllables are marked with .∪• The syllables in each line are measure in feet. A foot

consists of a certain number of syllables forming part of a line of verse.

Pentameter A pentameter is a line of verse containing 5

metrical feet.

So If a line has 10 syllables, how many syllables are in each metrical foot?

Pentameter There are two syllables in each metrical foot of

iambic pentameter. These are called iambs.

Shall I compare thee to a sum mer’s day

Iambs: The Basis of Iambic Poetry

return displace to love my heart

exist belong predict away

the one we played

you know I can’t

An iamb is a foot consisting of an initial unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

U /

Iambic Pentameter

A line of poetry that contains five metrical feet consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Shall I compare thee to a sum mer’s day

U U U U U/ / / / /

Iambic Pentameter

Iambic pentameter is significant because it:• Is the most common type of meter.• Mimics the sound of a human heartbeat.• Is closest to the way we actually speak.• Shakespeare used it in everything he wrote.

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 fadeNor 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.

Class Reading: Emphasize the unstressed and stressed syllables.

• Paraphrase each quatrain and the final couplet in your own words.

• Write a thematic statement that expresses the main idea of the poem.

• Write the rhyme scheme and mark the stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Think of an appropriate title for the poem.

Work with a partner to:

Sonnet 130My 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 delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat 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 rareAs any she belied with false compare.

• Paraphrase each quatrain and the final couplet in your own words.

• Write a thematic statement that expresses the main idea of the poem.

• Write the rhyme scheme and mark the stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Think of an appropriate title for the poem.

Work with a partner to:

You may start from scratch with a new topic or choose to transform a poem you have previously written. Be sure to:

• Follow the structure of a sonnet. Label the following:

– Rhyme Scheme

– 3 Quatrains & Couplet

– Iambic Pentameter ( U / U / U / U / U / )

• End with a couplet that sums up the idea of your poem.

• Use imagery.

Write your own original sonnet