Either delete everything on this sheet and write your own sonnet (meeting

all the criteria of a sonnet) OR complete the style log below and delete
these instructions.
Style Analysis Log: Sonnet Tools
Poem
Put You On
Game by
Lupe Fiasco

Shall I
compare thee
to a
summers
day? (Sonnet
18)'

Quotation
I am the blood of this city, its
gas, water, and electricity.

Nor lose possession of that fair

thou owst,
Nor shall death brag thou
wandrest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time
thou growst.

Tool
Direct
Metap
hor

How does the style add to the meaning?

By comparing himself to blood, gas,
water, and electricity the poet shows he
gives life to the city. Without him, it would
fail.

Choos
e one
of
these:
volta,
coupl
et,
rhyme
schem
e,
meter

The poet is using a volta to comparing

the everlasting beauty of his lover to
the beauty of summer.However the
poet is comparing his lover to death or
old age in the volta, but the poet is
saying positive things about the
person.So it went from a poem about
the summer to a poem about time, old
age.

So long as men can breathe, or

William
Shakespe
are, 1564

eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this
gives life to thee.

- 1616

Confused about how to answer the question in the last box?

A GOOD Example: By using rhyme to create a rhythm the poet shows that people should strive for harmony and reconciliation.
Some BAD Examples:
The poem rhymes so it is easier to read.
The poem creates the image of an individual camped in a meadow.
The personification gives joy human characteristics.
The simile compares his sorrow and an arrow.

Find one of your poems that uses iambic pentameter (your sonnet is a great one) and
fill out the information below and do the steps below that.

Title of Poem Shall I compare thee to a summers day

u and / marks

u / u

u /u

u/ u

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

A line from the
poem
u and / marks

u /u

When in eternal lines to Time thou growst.

Another line
from the
poem

1. Use the blank line above to CORRECTLY LABEL the unstressed (U) and
stressed (/) syllables in the two lines youve chosen.
2. Write two lines OF YOUR OWN in iambic pentameter below:
the babbling banana fell out of bed.
However the banana broke his head.