February 26, 2014Quatrains, Cinquains and Sonnets

Homework: Start memorizing your poem. Be ready to recite it and discuss it for Friday's POETRY CAFE. Unit 4 vocabulary quiz next Tuesday, March 4th. Poetry test on Wednesday, March 5th!

Objective: I can identify the elements of a quatrain, cinquain and sonnet.

Warm Up (in your composition book)In your comp book, copy down the following terms. Leave room for definitions! QUATRAIN CINQUAINSONNET

quatraina stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

An example of an AABB rhyme scheme can be found in Donna Brock’s "The Mountain"

The mountain frames the sky,AAs a shadow of an eagle flies by,AWith clouds hanging at its edge,BA climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge.B

An example of an ABAB rhyme scheme can be found in the first quatrain of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?AThou art more lovely and more temperate:BRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,AAnd summer's lease hath all too short a dateB

cinquain

a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.

THE RULES OF A CINQUAINA traditional cinquain, as it was defined by the poet who invented it, looks like this...These are the rules:Cinquains are five lines long. They have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and just 2 in the last line. Cinquains do not need to rhyme, but you can include rhymes if you want to.

Ice cream cinquain

Ice cream.Cold and yummy.

I love its sweet richnessas it finds its way into my

tummy.

My Messy RoomMy room

is such a mess.Toys all over the place.

Mom says, “Clean up!” But I like itlike this.

sonneta 14 line poem that expresses a single thought, idea, or sentiment (feeling about something), usually written in iambic pentameter.

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.

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Sonnet 116 - William ShakespeareLet me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Homework:

Start memorizing your poem. Be ready to recite it and discuss it for Friday's POETRY CAFE. Unit 4 vocabulary quiz next Tuesday, March 4th. Poetry test on Wednesday, March 5th!