-Students then read Robert Burns' "Red, Red Rose" for contrast. They labelled the rhyme scheme, and looked for poetic devices, including metaphors, similes, and hyperbole.
-We looked at Christopher Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd" poem, and did much the same - this time we were looking at the beauty of the love poem, and the connection to nature...
-To contrast the mushy, lovey nature of the previous two poems, we read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130"
HOMEWORK TO BE SUBMITTED IN TEAMS and brought to class in hard copy:
Shakespeare wrote very carefully crafted sonnets. The poems may have light-hearted content, or may parody the work of other writers, but the form is serious.
They are 14 line pieces, made up of three four-line sections (quatrains) and one rhyming couplet.
The rhyme scheme is ALWAYS ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG without exception.
Shakespeare also wrote many of his works in iambic pentameter, meaning that each line should have ten syllables, in a pattern of 5 unsstressed/stressed sets (iambs). You can push for that if you like, but we are going to cheat a bit and not worry about meter for this assignment.
Write a sonnet - have fun! You can be serious, but you can also parody the form, or another concept.
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