You will also see the rhyming pattern marked out for you.ġ2 Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments. I have divided the following sonnet into the three quatrains. More head scratching?ġ1 Quatrain? Quatrains are four line stanzas of any kind This rhythm is iambic pentameter! Well done!ġ0 Rhyming patterns The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains followed by a couplet, the scheme being: abab cdcd efef gg. If you cannot remember, go back to slide 5. Write this down and underline the stressed words. Well, there are three syllables (separate sounds) in the word syllable! “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks.” How many syllables are there in that quotation?ĩ “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks.”

An Example of Pentameter from Shakespeare: but SOFT what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS Meter is really the pattern So, there are five iambs per line! (Iambic penta meter )ħ It is percussive and attractive to the ear and has an effect on the listener's central nervous system.

It is the first and last sound we ever hear, it is the rhythm of the human heart beat.Ħ Pentameter? Well an ‘iamb’ is ‘dee Dum’ – it is the heart beat. It consists of a line of five iambic feet, ten syllables with five unstressed and five stressed syllables. Quite simply, it sounds like this: dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses.ĥ Heartbeat. A sonnet introduces a problem or question in the beginning, and a resolution is offered after the turn.Ĥ Iambic Pentameter Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. A sonnet can be about any subject, though they are often about love or nature. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man, The last 28 to a woman.ģ What is a sonnet? Iambic what? Oh dear, this is going to be a weird lesson! A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. They covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. Presentation on theme: 'Shakespeare: Sonnets & Iambic Pentameter'- Presentation transcript:ġ Shakespeare: Sonnets & Iambic PentameterĢ William Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets

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