Writing a Sonnet

Writing a Sonnet

What is a Sonnet?•Sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. In English sonnet, typically having ten syllables per line.

Who first invented a sonnet?

•The sonnet was created by Giacomo da Lentini and gained popularity during the Italian Renaissance. Italian sonnets are commonly referred to as “Petrarchan Sonnet”

•The Petrarchan Sonnet was named after Francesco Petrarca (aka Petrarch) .•It spread across Europe and was introduced to England in the early 16th century by Thomas Wyatt.

The Sonnets that was introduced

during the Elizabethan Period•The two types of sonnets are introduced during the Elizabethan Period are Shakespearean Sonnet and Spenserian Sonnet.

The requirements in writing a sonnet

•Writing a sonnet requires the following:•It must have 14 lines (3 quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the last 2 lines)

•It must follow the iambic pentameter•It must have the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg and abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.•It must include the volta.

A Brief Biography of

William Shakespeare

Who is William Shakespeare?

•William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town and civil parish on April 26, 1564.


•He was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.


•He was often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon“.•He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.

Shakespearean Sonnet


Shakespearean Sonnet is a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and

created by William Shakespeare, composed of

three quatrains and a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab

cdcd efef gg.


① Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou 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:⑤ Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:⑨ But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,⑬ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

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A Brief Biography of

Edmund Spenser

Who is Edmund Spenser?

•Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552, though there is some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth.

Who is Edmund Spenser?• He was an English poet

best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.


•He wrote 89 sonnets, Epithalamion, etc.

Spenserian Sonnet

Spenserian SonnetSpenserian Sonnet is a sonnet

form developed in 16th-century England and created

by Edmund Spenser, composed of three quatrains

and a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter with the

rhyme pattern abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Spenserian Sonnet① One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I write it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.⑤ Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise.⑨ Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name.⑬ Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. - Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser

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Venn Diagram between the 2 types of English language

sonnetsShakesperean

Sonnet

• Named after William

Shakespeare• Has the rhyme

scheme of “abab, cdcd,

efef, gg”• It divides into 3 quatrains and ends in rhyming

couplet.• It follows the

iambic pentameter

• Has 14 lines• Shakespeare

wrote 154 sonnets.

Spenserian Sonnet

• Named after Edmund Spenser• Has the rhyme

scheme of “abab,

bcbc,cdcd, ee”• It also divides into 3 quatrains and ends with the rhyming

couplet• It also follows

the iambic pentameter

• It also has 14 lines

• Spenser wrote 89 sonnets

“Appreciate theclassics and write on”

“THE END”

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Writing a Sonnet