3. What is a sonnet?
Italian word “sonnetto” = a little song
4. What is a sonnet?
Italian word “sonnetto” = a little song
Started in Italy, moved across world
5. What is a sonnet?
Italian word “sonnetto” = a little song
Started in Italy, moved across world
Popular during Shakespeare’s time
6. What is a sonnet?
Italian word “sonnetto” = a little song
Started in Italy, moved across world
Popular during Shakespeare’s time
17th century (1600s)
15. Sample Sonnet:
In every breath she took with me, I saw
Light, dark and air beneath her smiling soul.
16. Sample Sonnet:
In every breath she took with me, I saw
Light, dark and air beneath her smiling soul.
With every word my parted lips turn raw
17. Sample Sonnet:
In every breath she took with me, I saw
Light, dark and air beneath her smiling soul.
With every word my parted lips turn raw
She pours my love like soup into a bowl.
24. 2. Cluster or freewrite to get ideas
Don’t write to see what you get
25. 2. Cluster or freewrite to get ideas
Don’t write to see what you get
Focus on an idea
26. 2. Cluster or freewrite to get ideas
Don’t write to see what you get
Focus on an idea
Remember you will revise/edit later
27. 3. Begin with the rhyme
scheme on the right side
of your paper
28. a
b
3. Begin with the rhyme a
b
scheme on the right side
c
of your paper d
c
d
e
f
e
f
g
g
29. 4. Write the lines first, then count the meter
(syllables)
30. 4. Write the lines first, then count the meter
(syllables)
5. Remember that the couplet must
be like a punchline/a “twist”
31. 4. Write the lines first, then count the meter
(syllables)
5. Remember that the couplet must
be like a punchline/a “twist”
So then my girl says “Hey! Let’s just be
friends”
And where my love began, It comes to end.
34. Give your sonnet a title
Titles help reader
Titles giver a preview of your poem
35. Give your sonnet a title
Titles help reader
Titles giver a preview of your poem
May be a figure of speech
36. Give your sonnet a title
Titles help reader
Titles giver a preview of your poem
May be a figure of speech
First draft must be written in Comp. book