Directions: Use what you know about sonnet structure, rhyme, and rhythm to recreate your own sonnet. Use the pattern of Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 130 to help you. Your sonnets will be graded based on the following: correct rhythm (# syllables), an English rhyme scheme,
contrasting images for examples, correct use of the turn, spelling/capitalization/ punctuation.
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130.2 by ________________________________________
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
____(4 syllables)__________ is/are nothing like ___(2 syllables)_______;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
_(2 syllables)__ is/are far more (adjective) than _(2 syllables)_ (adjective);
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If ___(3 syllables)_________, why then ___(4 syllables)__________;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
If ___(3 syllables)_________, __________(6 syllables)__________.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
I have seen (noun) __________(5-6 syllables)_______________________,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
But no such (noun) _______________________(4-5 syllables)__________;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
And in some (noun) there is more___________(2 syllables)__________
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
Than in __________(8 syllables)_______________________.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
I love to ___(3 syllables)_________, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
That (noun) has/have a __________________(4-5 syllables)__________;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
I grant I never _______________________(5 syllables)__________;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
__(3 syllables- same as 1st line)_, when he/she/it (Verb), _(4 syllables)__;
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
And yet, by XX, I think ___(4 syllables)__________
As any she belied with false compare.
As any __________(8 syllables)_______________________.
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