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Sonnet Analysis Practice
Directions: Read each sonnet below and:
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Label the rhyming pattern in the space provided beside each line (ABAB)
UNDERLINE each IAMB (5 per line)
Draw a STAR next to the TURN of the sonnet (IF a noticeable turn is present)
Attempt to translate each line of the sonnet into modern English (in the box provided)
Underneath the sonnet, provide your BEST interpretation/summary of THE MAIN IDEA of the sonnet
SONNET 27
Sonnet Translation:
1 Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,______
Line 1
2 The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; ______
Line 2
3 But then begins a journey in my head, ______
Line 3
4 To work my mind, when body's work's expired: ______
Line 4
5 For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) ______
Line 5
6 Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, ______
Line 6
7 And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, ______
Line 7
8 Looking on darkness which the blind do see: ______
Line 8
9 Save that my soul's imaginary sight______
Line 9
10 Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, ______
Line 10
11 Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, ______
Line 11
12 Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. ______
Line 12
13 Lo, thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, ______
Line 13
14 For thee, and for myself, no quiet find. ______
Line 14
Summary of Main Idea:
Directions: Read each sonnet below and:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Label the rhyming pattern in the space provided beside each line (ABAB)
UNDERLINE each IAMB (5 per line)
Draw a STAR next to the TURN of the sonnet (IF a noticeable turn is present)
Attempt to translate each line of the sonnet into modern English (in the box provided)
Underneath the sonnet, provide your BEST summary/interpretation of the MAIN IDEA of the sonnet
SONNET 18
Sonnet Translation:
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ______
Line 1
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: ______
Line 2
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, ______
Line 3
4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: ______
Line 4
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, ______
Line 5
6 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; ______
Line 6
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, ______
Line 7
8 By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; ______
Line 8
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade______
Line 9
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; ______
Line 10
11 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, ______
Line 11
12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; ______
Line 12
13 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, ______
Line 13
14 So long lives this and this gives life to thee. ______
Line 14
Summary of Main Idea: