Directions: Read the following sonnet by Shakespeare, published in 1609. Annotate for the
following:
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Rhyme scheme (abab)
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Meter (stressed / unstressed syllables)
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Define unfamiliar terms
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Underline/label literary devices
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Paraphrase
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Theme
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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Admit impediments. Love is not love
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Which alters when it alteration finds,
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Or bends with the remover to remove:
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O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
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That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
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It is the star to every wandering bark,
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Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
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Within his bending sickle's compass come;
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Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
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But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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If this be error and upon me proved,
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I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Sonnet Directions: Now that you understand the basics of a sonnet, you have to write a Shakespearean
Sonnet prologue for one of the major literary pieces that we have read this year. (East of Eden, TKAM,
Of Mice and Men, Anansi Boys, Year of Wonders, Ender’s Game). Make sure to follow the generic
makeup (rhyme scheme, meter, quatrain function, etc).
Due: Tuesday, February 17