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Elizabethan / Shakespearean Sonnets
14 Lines:
3 Quatrains (verses with 4 lines each)
2 line coda (closing lines)
Rhyme Scheme:
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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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The last word/sound in each verse
rhymes in this pattern (A with A,
B with B, and so on.)
For example:
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Cat
Box
Fat
Fox
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Happy
Sad
Snappy
Bad
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Book
Rose
Look
Nose
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Love
Dove
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Meter: Iambic Pentameter
Iambic foot: Unstressed syllable followed by STRESSED syllable, like, "da-DUM"
Pentameter: Line with five feet, like,
da-Dum da-Dum da-Dum da-Dum da-DUM
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Oh, Skippy is the name of my grey cat
He loves to climb inside a cardboard box
If he keeps eating mice he will get fat
He's playful and as clever as a fox
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Volta:
The final couplet (two line coda) summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a new way to look at the theme (could be a clever twist!)
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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.