SHAKESPEAR

EAN SONNET
EXERCISE 15
On page 72 to 73 of your ECAS book,
correct the following run-on sentences by
combining related elements into compound
subjects or compound predicates.
EXERCISE 15
1. William Shakespeare is considered by
many to be the greatest playwright, he is also
considered the greatest poet of all time.
1. William Shakespeare is considered by
many to be the greatest playwright and the
greatest poet of all time.
SONNET
A poem made up of fourteen lines that
rhyme in a fixed pattern. It is made up
of iambs, an iamb is a metrical foot in
poetry.
Poetic Meter
Meters are the rhythms within poems.
Meters are the arrangement of
stressed/unstressed syllables to occur at
apparently equal intervals.
Metered verse has prescribed rules as to the
number and placement of syllables used per
line.
Poetic FOOT
• A poetic foot is a repeated sequence of
rhythm comprised of two or more stressed
and/or unstressed syllables.
• Poetic meter is comprised of poetic feet
PATTERNS OF POETIC
FEET
1. IAMBIC
• 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed
syllable
• EXAMPLES:
–repose (re-POSE)
–belief (be-LIEF)
–complete (com-PLETE)
PATTERNS OF POETIC
FEET
2. TROCHAIC
• 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed
syllable
• EXAMPLES:
–garland (GAR-land)
–speaking (SPEAK-ing)
–value (VAL-ue)
Combinations of Poetic Feet
• One foot per line: monometer
• Two feet per line : dimeter
• Three feet per line : trimeter
• Four feet per line : tetrameter
• Five feet per line : pentameter
• Six feet per line : hexameter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's “The Song of
Hiawatha”
By the / shores of / Gitche / Gumee,
By the / shining / Big-Sea /-Water,
Stood the / wigwam / of No / komis,
Daughter / of the / Moon, No / komis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before' it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
PATTERNS OF POETIC
FEET
3. ANAPESTIC
• 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed
syllable
• EXAMPLES:
– on the road
–interrupt (in-ter-RUPT)
–unabridged, contradict, engineer, masquerade,
A Limerick by Edward Lear:
There was / an Old Man / with a beard,
Who said, "It is just / as I feared!
Two Owls / and a Hen,
Four Larks / and a Wren,
Have all / built their nests / in my beard!"
PATTERNS OF POETIC
FEET
4. dactylic
• 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed
syllables
• EXAMPLE:
–happiness (HAP-pi-ness)
–galloping (GAL-lop-ing)
–fortunate, Saturday, daffodil, murmuring,
Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
Half a league, / half a league,
Half a league / onward,
All in the / valley of / Death
Rode the / six hundred.
"Forward, the / Light Brigade!
Charge for the / guns!" he said:
Into the / valley of / Death
PATTERNS OF POETIC
FEET
5. SPONDAIC
• All syllables have equal stress
• EXAMPLE:
• Heartbreak
• “Out, out…”
• "pen-knife," "ad hoc," "heartburn"
SONNET XVIII
SONNET Xxix
SONNET CXVI
Sonnet XVIII follows the typical
Shakespearean style, comprising of
three quatrains (a poem or verse that
has four lines) in iambic pentameter
(a line of verse consisting of five
pairs or ten syllables of alternating
unstressed and stressed syllables),
ending in a heroic couplet.

Rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

So LONG / as MEN / can BREATHE / or EYES / can
SEE,
So LONG / lives THIS / gives LIFE / to THEE
On one-whole sheet of pad
paper, answer the questions
on the activity entitled
Exercise 10 .