A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme and structure. It follows a rhyming pattern and includes iambic pentameter. The most famous example is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which compares the subject's beauty to a summer's day. Sonnets can express love or ideas through constrained form and language.
2. A sonnet is simply a poem written in a
certain format. You can identify a sonnet if
the poem has the following characteristics:
14 lines. All sonnets have 14 lines which
can be broken down into four sections
called quatrains.
3. 1. They are written in iambic
pentameter. 2. They are fourteen lines
long. 3. They have a set rhyme scheme. 4.
They have a turn or “volta.” 5. They all bear
the name “sonnet.”
4.
5. SONNET 18Shall 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.
6. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this
hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf
stagnant waters: altar, sword, and
pen,Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and
bower,Have forfeited their ancient English
dowerOf inward happiness. We are selfish
men;Oh! raise us up, return to us again;And give
us manners, virtue, freedom, power.Thy soul was
like a Star, and dwelt apart;Thouhadst a voice
whose sound was like the sea:Pure as the naked
heavens, majestic, free,So didst thou travel on
life's common way,In cheerful godliness; and yet
thy heartThe lowliest duties on herself did lay.
7.
8. I work and work to get the moves right
I try to relate to the song but sometimes I can’t
We are just a week away; I still haven’t got the move right
move
But I still practice every day, every day I almost have it
When we get to the day I am as nervous as a person
getting chased by the swat team
But I try to hold in all the nervousness inside and try to
concentrate
The closer I get to the time I get more confident in my self
Its time and when I’m done everyone stands
When I leave, I leave knowing that I’ve done my best
9. We looked into the the fridge and it wasn’t good Then
Carlton said “ Dude what is that” And there it was a jar of
mayonnaise. Now the mayonnaise was a creamy color but
What was on the jar made us jump, it and it had a letter
that said
WERE WATCHING YOU BETTER WATH YOUR BACK
And there was a picture of a gun. We had no idea how it
got there
We were watching are every move Till the door open
and in walked a man and a women dressed in all
black and before we could run they both pulled out a
gun but before they could do anything the jar of
mayonnaise jumped out and beet down the bad guys
he was SUPER MAYONIASE
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