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Here are sixteen of the most well-known and easy-to-understand sonnets. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in all, but this collection focuses on the ones that are most accessible to student actors.
Funny Sonnet Poems. What are Funny Sonnet Poems? Simply put, a sonnet is a poem (funny or otherwise) made up of three quatrains (in iambic pentameter) followed by a concluding couplet. A quatrain is four lines of verse with an A-B-A-B rhyme scheme.
In this lesson, we will explore the key features of a Shakespearean sonnet, such as iambic pentameter, and discover one of Shakespeare's greatest sonnets, 'Sonnet 18'.
Key learning points. In this lesson, we will look at the history of the sonnet form. We will also start to look at the structure of a sonnet in preparation for the next lesson on the features of a Shakespearean sonnet.
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The document is a detailed lesson plan for teaching English to 10th grade students focusing on Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets. The lesson plan aims to help students differentiate between the two types of sonnets and determine the rhyme scheme of sample sonnets.
Shakespeare’s sonnets are poems of expressive ideas and thoughts that are layered with multiple meanings, and always have two things in common: 1. All sonnets have fourteen lines. 2. All sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. Read more about what a sonnet is, and iambic pentameter.
