Sonnets

1. Sonnets “Both kinds: Country and Western!”

2. Petrachian / Italian • Form • A lyric poem that is 14 lines long • divided into two quatrains (or an octet) and a six-line “sestet,” • rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd) • Iambic pentameter • Content • Octet establishes problem • Sestet delivers solution • Volta (turn) in the 9th line marks the shift from one idea to the next

3. Spenserian • Form • three quatrains and a final couplet • rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee • iambic pentameter. • Content • Each quatrain develops related ideas • Couplet presents commentary or a new idea • Volta can be in 9th line or in couplet

4. Shakespearean / English • Form • three quatrains and a final couplet • rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg • iambic pentameter. • Content • Each quatrain develops related ideas • Couplet presents commentary or a new idea • Volta is often in the couplet

5. Iambic Pentameter • A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line. • Iambs= a metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed). • There are four iambs in the line “Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love,” from a poem by Christopher Marlowe. (The stressed syllables are in bold.) • An example of an iambic pentameter line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is • ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / • “But soft!/ What light/ through yon/der win/dow breaks?”

6. Meter Patterns • Iambus (iambic) ^ / What light • Trochee (trochaic) / ^ Jack and • Anapest (anapestic) ^ ^ / on the bridge • Dactyl (dactylic) / ^ ^ Over the • Spondee (spondaic) / / boom boom • Pyrrhus (pyrrhic) ^ ^ of the

7. A Little Quiz • 1. How many syllables in one line of a sonnet?

8. 2. How many syllables total?

9. 3. What is the key difference between an Italian and an English sonnet?

10. 4 Identify the meter of the following line: Jack and Jill went up a hill