sonnet 29

• Poetry


  A form of writing that uses not only words, but also form, patterns of sound, imagery, and figurative language to convey the message
• Elements of a poem

  • Words
  • Form
  • Patterns of sound
  • Imagery
  • Figurative language
• Form


  • The structure or configuration of all the parts of the poem
  • Open form - follows neither a rhyme scheme or meter
  • Closed form - follows a definite pattern and has regular measures and stanzas
• Sound devices


  • Rhythm - the pattern of beat produced by the regularity or irregularity stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  • Rhyme - the repetition of similar or identical sounds in the initial, middle, or end part of verses or lines in poetry
  • Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words
• Metrical rhythm


  Stresses or syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line, each foot usually includes one syllable with a stress and one without a stress
• Rhyme scheme


  The rhyming pattern that is created at the end of lines of poetry, if the poem does not have a rhyme scheme it's considered to be a free verse poem
• Sonnet


  • A classical form of poetry of fourteen lines, with two major types: Petrarchan and Shakespearean
• Shakespearean sonnet


  • Composed of three quatrains and a heroic couplet, rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
• Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
• The rhyme scheme followed by the entire sonnet is abab cdcd ebeb gg
• The poem is in pentameter: each line is made up of five unstressed and five stressed syllables, making a total of ten syllables per line
• Open Form – follows neither a rhyme scheme or meter

  Closed Form – follows a definite pattern and has regular measures and stanzas.