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English (Shakespearean) Sonnet
Creative Writing
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14 line poem
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Meter (Iambic Pentameter)-
Iamb: Two syllables à unstressed/ stressed (the stressed syllable is emphasized)
-An iamb can be one or two words.
One word examples: withIN, forGIVE, mySELF, exPLAIN
Two word examples: he WENT, and I
Iambic Pentameter: five sets of iamb (total of ten syllables)
Volta (turn in subject matter):
-A change in ideas; shift of emotions or thoughts.
-Do you want to emphasize a point?
Sonnet 116
By William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which 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 wand’ring 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.
Unaware
by Kaitlyn Guenther
Isolation quickly overwhelms me
Begging for forgiveness, a fallen hand
Desolation I now begin to see
Hanging by a thin thread, a single strand
I watch them… Their fears, their misbehavior
Mistreat, abuse…. Completely unaware
I am the land, their glorious savior
Someday they will learn to treat me with care
I wish they would learn to trust each other
To join as one, to stand strong together
A bond, a band and a mighty brother
Forever as one, a powerful tether
You may not know, that fear is their captor
So you may not see each special factor