Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Transcript of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
English I Honors
Mrs. Pilgreen
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Rhyme Scheme Those hours, that with gentle work did frame A
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, BWill play the tyrants to the very same AAnd that unfair which fairly doth excel; BFor never-resting time leads summer on CTo hideous winter, and confounds him there; DSap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, CBeauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: DThen were not summer's distillation left, EA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,FBeauty's effect with beauty were bereft, ENor it, nor no remembrance what it was: F But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, G Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet. G
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Line Structure
• 14 total lines
• 3 quatrains: group of 4 lines
• Followed by a couplet: group of 2 lines
• Lyric poetry: expresses the thoughts & emotions of a single speaker, usually love
• Contains a volta at the 3rd stanza: change in tone or attitude
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Metrical Patterns
• unstressed syllable: u• Stressed syllable: /
• Iamb: u /• Trochee: / u• Anapest: u u /• Dactyl: / u u• Spondee: / /
• 1 foot: monometer• 2 feet: dimeter• 3 feet: trimeter• 4 feet: tetrameter• 5 feet: pentameter• 6 feet: hexameter• 7 feet: heptameter• 8 feet: octameter
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Metrical Patterns
• Iambic Pentameter: 5 (feet of) iambs
u / u / u / u / u /
Example:
What light through yon-der win-dow breaks?
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The Sonnets
• Sonnets 1-126 addressed to a “fair youth” – urging him to marry and have children so that
he can leave behind a duplicate of his beauty– love & admiration
• Sonnet 127-152 addressed to a “dark lady,” the speaker’s mistress – The fair youth has stolen the dark lady from
the speaker– Object of infatuation & lust