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Syllables

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Syllables

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  1. Think about something you've written that you remember well. It might be a letter to someone, an essay for school, an article for the school newspaper, or a poem. Think also about the choices that we've discovered poets make when they write a poem. How did you make choices as you were writing? What conclusions can you draw about writers in general from thinking about the way that you and others (including poets) write? (5 minutes)

  2. Syllables Counting syllables How many syllables are in: Today unexceptionable Summer Long Category Syllable

  3. Sonnets • First, sonnets have 14 lines • Each verse has 10 syllables • Traditionally written in iambic pentameter • Usually has a strict adherence to form

  4. Petrarchan • abbaabbacdecdeabbaabba cc ddeeabbaabbacdcdee • The quatrains where set up in such a way as to relate back to form (pose a question/problem, answer it, etc.) • Shakespearean ababcdcdefefgg • The closing couplet refers back to the theme

  5. Shakespeare Sonnet 16 But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time? And fortify yourself in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?Now stand you on the top of happy hours; And many maiden gardens, yet unset With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair, Which this (Time's pencil, or my pupil pen), Neither in inward worth nor outward fair, Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.    To give away yourself keeps yourself still,    And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill. 

  6. Write your own sonnet! Write a sonnet about something you really dislike. Do not use any names, however. It needs to be 14 lines, with the Shakespearean rhyme scheme. Each line needs to have 10 syllables.

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