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Title: Sonnets


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Sonnets
  • Generally deal with the expression of emotion,
    especially love.
  • 14 lines long
  • Meter - iambic pentameter

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Shakespeares Sonnets
  • 14 lines
  • Written in iambic pentameter
  • Three quatrains a rhyming couplet
  • Quatrain group of four lines
  • Couplet two lines
  • Rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef,gg

3
Shakespeares Sonnets - Structure
  • Often, 1st quatrain introduces situation
  • 2nd 3rd quatrains explore situation
  • Often a turn or shift in thought occurs at the
    3rd quatrain or at the couplet.
  • Couplet resolves the situation (punch line)

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Sonnet 18
  • Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
  • Thou art more lovely and more temperate
  • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  • And summers lease hath all too short a date
  • 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 natures changing course untrimmed
  • But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
  • Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst,
  • Nor shall death rag thou wandrest in his shade,
  • When in eternal lines to time thou growst,
  • So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
  • So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Sonnet 18 - paraphrase
  • Shall I compare thee to a OOOOH Baby I think I
    summers day? shall compare you to a
    summer day
  • Thou art more lovely But, you know, youre
    prettier and more temperate and even better,
    even calm
  • Rough winds do shake Because sometimes it gets
  • the darling buds of May, windy and the buds on
    the
  • trees get shaken off
  • And summers lease And sometimes summer doesnt
  • hath all too short a date last very long

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  • Sometime too hot the eye Sometimes its too hot
  • of heaven shines,
  • And often is his gold And pretty faces lose
  • complexion dimmed, their shine
  • And every fair from fair And everything
    gorgeous
  • sometime declines, loses its looks
  • By chance, or natures changing By getting hit
    by a truck
  • course untrimmed OR just because
    everyone and everything
  • gets old and
  • ugly and shabby

7
  • But thy eternal summer shall But (and heres the
    turn)
  • not fade, Your beauty will last forever
  • Nor lose possession of that Im going to make
    sure
  • fair thou owst, that you never lose your
    good looks
  • Nor shall death rag thou And that nasty old
    Death
  • wandrest in his shade, can never rag about
    owning you
  • When in eternal lines to time Because I shall
    write this
  • thou growst, poem about you

8
  • So long as men can breathe As long as men can
  • or eyes can see, breathe (are you
    breathing?)
  • So long lives this, and this As long as men
    can see gives life to thee. (Are you looking
    at this
  • poem?) Then this poem lives, and
    it gives life and memory to your
    beauty.

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Sonnet 29
  • When in disgrace with When I feel unlucky and as
  • Fortune and mens eyes, if no one likes me
  • I all alone beweep my And I feel all alone and
    cry
  • outcast state,
  • And trouble deaf heaven And its as if my
    prayers to
  • with my bootless cries, heaven have no power at
    all because no one is listening
  • And look upon myself And I feel sorry for myself
    and
  • and curse my fate, think that m the unluckiest
    person alive

10
  • Wishing me like to one I wish that I had that
    persons
  • more rich in hope, opportunities
  • Featured like him, That I looked like that cute
  • like him with friends person and was as popular
    as
  • possessed, the most popular person in my
    class
  • Desiring this mans art, Wishing that I had that
    mans
  • and that mans scope, talent, and that mans
    understanding of difficult concepts
  • With what I most enjoy Not at all happy with the
    things I
  • contented least, usually enjoy

11
  • Yet in these thoughts Even then, almost hating
  • myself almost despising, myself for thinking this
    way
  • Haply I think on thee, Perhaps my thoughts think
  • and then my state, about you, and then my soul,
  • Like to the lark at break Just like the lark
    that sings
  • of day arising at the moment the light of day
  • From sullen earth sings Breaks over the cold
    earth,
  • hymns at heavens gate, sings a song filled with
    joy
  • and light

12
  • For thy sweet love Because I remember the
  • remembred such sweet love we share,
  • wealth brings, and the richness
  • that it brings
  • That then I scorn And, at that point,
  • to change my state remembering what we
  • with kings. have together, I wouldnt
    change my present condition even with a
    king.

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Paraphrase
  • Takes difficult language and explains it in
    easier, more understandable, language.
  • Usually as long as or longer than the original
    piece.
  • Generally does not contain any of the original
    language.

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