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An Examples

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,�

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—�

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,�

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.�

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—�

Only this and nothing more.”

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From “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

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An Example

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,�

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—�

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,�

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.�

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—�

Only this and nothing more.”

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From “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

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Let’s Practice!

  1. ∪ ∪ /
  2. / ∪
  3. / /
  4. / ∪ /
  5. / ∪ ∪
  6. / ∪ / / ∪ / / ∪ /
  7. ∪ ∪ / ∪ ∪ / ∪ ∪ / ∪ ∪ / ∪ ∪ /

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Let’s Practice!

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Joseph Scotese

/ ∪

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∪ /

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Let’s Practice!

1. Kate dates lame Jamie

2. Robs ribs rubs rubes

3. Pigs pray perfectly, Petunia

4. Last blast cast mast

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Sonnets

  • How many lines in a sonnet?
  • What are the two/three kinds of sonnets?
  • What meter do they use?
  • What does Rhyme Scheme mean? A/B A/B

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Elizabethan Sonnet

Elizabethan/English/Shakespearean sonnet - a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

Other two major sonnets: The Italian (or Petrarchan) Sonnet:

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And

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The Spenserian Sonnet (invented by the poet Spenser)

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Poetics Test

  • Be able to identify what type of rhyme
  • Hose, Nose, toes _______________
  • Be able to tell me metrical foot

2. Three feet with unstressed (∪), unstressed, stressed ( / ).

____________ _______________

  • Be able to look at a very simple poem and tell me its

1) meter 2) rhyme scheme

I love to eat a pig

It makes me dance a jig

I eat all day and stop

Until my tum goes flop meter: __________ rhyme scheme: _______

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Find a Partner!

  • Test each other on all of these!
  • Keep going till you get it right!
  • Make a written test if you have time.
  • Do the meter of your names!