2.) Beneath/ an up/turned boat ---Iambic trimeter (U/U/U/)
Sonnets
14 lines, Iambic pentameter (almost always!), popular during Renaissance
2 types
Italian/Petrarchan
problem/situation/question: 8 (abbaabba rhyme scheme)
resolution/answer: 6 (cdecde rhyme scheme)
English/Shakespearean
*3 quatrains
*1 couplet
1st quatrain: abab rhyme scheme
2nd quatrain: cdcd rhyme scheme
3rd quatrain: efef rhyme scheme
heroic couplet (resolution): gg rhyme scheme
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Couplet: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
*"So" indicates that the sonnet is coming to a close
*"This" is referring to the sonnet itself--as long as the poem lives, so does she
*Begins talking about the girl in the third quatrain, saying she is better than summer
**QUIZ TOMORROW**
**Read Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?**
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