Sonnets
Rhyme
• The repetition of accented vowel sounds
and all sounds following them in words
that are close together in the poem.
• End rhyme – occurs at the ends of the line
• Rhyme scheme – the pattern of rhymed
lines in a poem
Definitions for the
Shakespearean Sonnet
• Iambic pentameter – A line of poetry made
up of five iambs. An iamb is a measure
consisting of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable
• Quatrain – A four line stanza or poem or a
group of four lines unified by a rhyme
scheme
• Couplet – Two consecutive lines of poetry
that rhyme
The Shakespearean Sonnet
• Has fourteen lines in iambic pentameter
• Sonnet is divided into three quatrains and
a couplet
• Rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg
• Third quatrain is the turn – a shift in focus
or thought
• Couplet is often a second turn of great
impact, a final summary, or explanation of
previous lines
Sonnet 18
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 fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 130
My 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 delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That 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 rare
As any she belied with false compare.
The World by Brad Paisley
To the teller down at the bank
To the waiter at the restaurant
You're just another checking
You're just another tip
account
To the guy at the ice cream shop
To the plumber that came today
You're just another dip
You're just another house
When you can't get reservations
At the airport ticket counter
'Cause you don't have the clout
You're just another fare
Or you didn't get an invitation
At the beauty shop at the mall
'Cause somebody left you out
Well you're just another head of
That's alright, that's ok
hair
When you don't feel important honey
Well that's alright, that's ok
All I've got to say is
If you don't feel important, honey
All I've got to say is
[Repeat chorus]
[Chorus]
To the world
You may be just another girl
But to me
Baby, you are the world
You think you're one of millions but
you're one in a million to me
When you wonder if you matter, baby
look into my eyes
And tell me, can't you see you're
everything to me
That's alright, that's ok
When you don't feel important honey
All I've gotta say is
Spencer
• Considered himself a poet.
• Spent several years in Ireland in the
service of the English government.
• Spent time with Sir Walter Raleigh
collaborating and traveling.
• Best known for his piece The Faerie
Queene.
Definitions for Sonnet 30
• Paradox - An apparent contradiction that is
somehow true.
• Conceit – A fanciful and elaborate figure of
speech that makes a surprising connection
between two seemingly dissimilar things.
Sonnet 30
My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
how comes it then that this her cold so great
is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,
but harder grows, the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayed by her heart frozen cold,
but that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
and feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
that fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice:
and ice which is congealed with senseless cold,
should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind
that it can alter all the course of kind.