Sonnet Structure
"How many lines are in any sonnet?"
What is 14?
What is iambic pentameter?
What is a line of poetry with 10 syllables in alternating unstressed and stressed pattern?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
Who wrote the following sonnet?
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts (from far where I abide)
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo, thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
Name one common theme in Shakespeare's Sonnets?
What is the passage of time, beauty, or immortality through poetry?
Name the parts of an Italian Sonnet.
What are the octave and the sestet?
What is a quatrain?
What is a stanza of four lines?
What rhyme scheme is used in the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet?
What is ABBA ABBA?
Who wrote the following sonnet?
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."
What is Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser?
What emotional theme is typical in Italian Sonnets?
What is unattainable or idealized lovers?
Where is the Volta in a Petrarchan sonnet?
What is between the octave and the sestet?
Define Volta.
What is the shift or turn in thought or tone, usually around line 9.
Define interlocking rhyme.
Daily Double
What is a rhyme scheme where one stanza's rhyme carries into the next (ABAB BCBC)?
Who wrote this sonnet?
O joyous, blossoming, ever-blessed flowers!
’Mid which my pensive queen her footstep sets;
O plain, that hold’st her words for amulets
And keep’st her footsteps in thy leafy bowers!
O trees, with earliest green of springtime hours,
And all spring’s pale and tender violets!
O grove, so dark the proud sun only lets
His blithe rays gild the outskirts of thy towers!
O pleasant country-side! O limpid stream,
That mirrorest her sweet face, her eyes so clear,
And of their living light canst catch the beam!
I envy thee her presence pure and dear.
There is no rock so senseless but I deem
It burns with passion that to mine is near.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
How do Spenserian Sonnets treat the idea of virtue?
What is the tension between spiritual virtue and physical desire?
Which sonnet form uses interlocking rhymes?
What is the Spenserian Sonnet?
What is a Couplet?
What are two consecutive rhyming lines?
Which sonnet uses ABAB BCBC CDCD EE?
What is the Spenserian Sonnet?
What form of sonnet, written by Claude McKay, is the following?
If We Must Die
By Claude McKay
What is Shakespearean?
Which form focuses on idealized or unrequited love?
What is the Italian Sonnet?
Which sonnet form ends with a rhyming couplet?
What is the Shakespearean sonnet?
What is a conceit in poetry?
What is an elaborate or extended metaphor?
List two sestet rhyme patterns in Italian Sonnets.
What are CDECDE and CDCDCD
What is the theme of the following Sonnet 18?
Shall 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 ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is is the power of poetry to immortalize beauty and love. The poem uses a summer's day as a starting point to compare it to the beloved's beauty, but ultimately argues that the beloved's beauty is more constant and lovely, and will be preserved forever through the poem's enduring lines.
Which Sonnet form best emphasizes a turn in argument or emotion?
What is the Italian Sonnet (with the Volta between octave and sestet)?