Sonnet

__//**By: Kristina Sawtelle and Marina Goncharov**// media type="custom" key="574731" **Sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines, following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes** __ A Sonnet poem is basically split up into about four sections. the first three being four lines long, and the last section being two lines long.(couplet) which then equals up to fourteen lines all together.

Each line in a sonnet poem has 10 syllables.
They came from the Italian word "sonneta" which means "little song" Petrarch developed the sonnet to one of the highest levels in Italy. From there, Shakespeare made the sonnet famous in England and other places that he went. The sonnet can be divided into two sections. It's basically separated by the first eight lines being the problem statement, that is resolved in the last six lines. There is a different between a Petrarch poem and a Shakespearean poem (english poem). A Petrarch poem has a different rhyme scheme than a Shakespearean poem. The English poem has a ryhme scheme of abab, with four lines in each stanza and a couplet to conclude the poem. The Petrarch poem has a ryhme scheme of "abba" with six lines in each stanza, usually without a couplet conclude it.
 * Sonnets were first written in Italian, and were originally love poems.

[|guide to sonnets] or [|the sonnet]**
 * if you want anymore information, visit either of these sites...

__Examples of Sonnet Poems...__ media type="youtube" key="ln4bcSHQBpY&feature=related" width="425" height="350" ** Shall i compare thee to a summer's day? bThou 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 ogld complexion dimm'd; And ever fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But they 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 ** ** How heavy do i journey on the way, When what i seek, my weary travel's end, Doth teach that ease and taht response to say 'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!' The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, the bear that weight in me, As if by some instinct the wretch did know His rider loved not speed, being made from thee: The bloody spur cannot provoke him on That sometimes anger thrusts into his hie; Which heavily he answers with a groan, More sharp to me than spurring to his side; For that some groan doth put this in my mind; My grief lies onward and my joy behind. **
 * number 1. (the video up above)**
 * number 2.**

poem, with the rhyming following "abab" or "cdcd". Then the last two lines of the poem ryhme with each other. Both of these poems have 10 syllables each line.
 * **each example up above is a Sonnet poem because**
 * each poem has 14 lines. They follow the critera of a Sonnet

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__**QUIZ!** __
1. How many lines are in a Sonnet poem?

2. In Italian
3. Shakespeare 4. Love poems 5. In the first eight lines 6. 10 syllables

__Citations;**__ McLaughlin, Damon. "Sonnet." __Sonnets__. August 23,1999. 13 Mar 2008 <[|http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/sonnet.html>.]

Byrd, Katy. "Shakespeare's Sonnets." __Sonnets__. August 10,2005. 13 Mar 2008 http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Sonnets.html.