Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Shakespearean Sonnet/English Sonnet: A

fourteen line poem broken up into three quatrains and one couplet. The three quatrains set up a question or idea and the couplet answers that question or idea.

Quatrain: Four lines of poetry that encapsulates one idea.

Couplet: Two lines of poetry that encapsulates one idea and rhymes.

Iambic Pentameter: Each line contains 10 syllables

Academic Vocabulary

Shift: Mark the quatrains, couplet, and rhyme scheme

Title: Ignore

Paraphrase If I compare you to a summers day, I would say that you are more beautiful and lovely than it. Sometimes the sun is not as bright as it always is and sometimes beautiful things are not

always beautiful Death will never kill you and you will never become ugly

Because as long as people read this they will know how beautiful you are

Connotation: Buds of May – Delicate flower – Subject Untrimm’d – Things are allowed to go wild and get ugly (like a hedge)

Attitude: Subject = Woman + She is beautiful = We think she is beautiful Title: Ignore Theme Through Shakespeare’s 18th Sonnet, readers learn how a woman’s beauty can last

forever if it is captured in words.

Sonnet 18

As a team do a STPCATT

Sonnet 29

Write a commanding paragraph on the

sonnet’s tone.

Sonnet 33

Individually create a thesis you could write to

on this poem. When everyone is done, compare your thesis

against your team members.

Sonnet 73

Identify the purpose of the poem

Identify the words that lead you to that purpose

Set up an L1-L3 Chart that allows you to check to see if you are correct

Sonnet 116

Create a body paragraph while at the same

time using the academic vocabulary of this style of writing.

Sonnet 129