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Prescription for Sonnet Writing

Prescription for Sonnet Writing. How to write a Shakespearean (English) Sonnet. Shakespearean Sonnets have 14 lines. Meter. The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Rhyme Scheme. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Prescription for Sonnet Writing

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  1. Prescription for Sonnet Writing How to write a Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

  2. Shakespearean Sonnets have 14 lines.

  3. Meter • The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

  4. Rhyme Scheme • ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • Rhymes may be ear-rhymes – rhymes in sound (decrease / increase) or eye-rhymes – rhymes by sight (compare / are)

  5. Quatrain • Stanzas of four lines (3 total in a sonnet) • Should be a pause for thought in the sonnet’s message at the end of each quatrain

  6. Couplet • Two lines that end with a rhyme; concludes the sonnet

  7. Iamb • A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable • Example: to DAY

  8. Iambic pentameter • A line that consists of 10 syllables with every second syllable accented • I AM a PI rate WITH a WOOD en Leg. • I WILL write WHE ther I like IT or NOT.

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