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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Term 1 Week 7 (Fri) Today learnt about sonnets . The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. The conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them (not including those that appear in his plays). A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet. An example : If I profane with my unworthiest hand This is my holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this, For saints have hands that pilgrim's hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss Have not saints lips, and holy palmer's too? Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. Then pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair Saints do not move, through grant for prayer's sake. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Mr Chua go through with us the question and he also explained the question . Unfortunately we do not have enough time to finish the whole paper . Then Mr Chua told to do this worksheet as homework . |
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