
Sonnets : What are sonnet ?
Basically, Sonnets are one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. 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 emphasized 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. We did only the first page of the worksheet.
This are some example what we did :-
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.
p/s : Well , Homework to be done on the other page okay?
Oh ya! Forget to tell you guys, we had part two and it's after school. Do you guys remember the day after 10 anniversary of Evergreen? We had a day off! So we are supposed to rescheduled our lessons after school. So therefore, literature is one of the subject. Yeah!
Ah! This lesson if fun. Want to know why? We went to Movers and Shakers Gallery. Confused? I was too. What have literature got to do with our Founding Fathers? Ah! I find out that Literature have something with them. Well, noting much is done.