THE

SONNET AND
THE IMAGINATIVE WORLD
OF POETRY
PREPARED BY: TEACHER LUDIVIDEN S. NEGRILLO
 WHAT IS A SONNET?
 The word comes from the Italian word
sonnetto, meaning a little sound or song.
 Originated in 12thC Italy based on old folk
song stanza
 The first recognizable sonnets are associated
with “Courtly Love”
 SOME FAMOUS SONNET POETS
 Petrarch 1304- 74
 Sir Thomas Wyatt 1502- 42
 Henry Howard 1517- 47
 William Shakespeare
 Sir Philip Sidney
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 OTHER SONNET THEMES:
 Religious Sonnets: John Donne, George
Herbert,Gerard Manly Hopkins
 Political Sonnet: Shelly “England in 1819”
 Society- Wordsworth “Upon Westminster
Bridge”
 War- Owen “Anthem for Dommed Youth”

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 Part 01

THE SONNET
PATTERNS
Part 04
 THE SONNET PATTERNS:
 In poetry, a sonnet has 14 lines, and is written in iambic 
pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific 
rhyme scheme.

 Iambic Pentameter- a line of verse with five metrical

feet,each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable
followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example:

Two household, both alike in dignity

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 TYPES OF SONNETS:
 English (Shakespearean) Sonnet

 Petrarchan Sonnet

 Spenserian Sonnet

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 ENGLISH (SHAKESPEAREAN) SONNET
 Rhyme Scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
Part 01
 Made up of 3 quatrains and couplet
Quatrain- 4 lines Part 02
Couplet- 2 lines (rhyming)
 Each quatrain is a unit
Partof
03 thought: The kind of
operate like a paragraph would prose writing
 The concluding couplet makes some comment
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about the quatrains before it.
 PETRARCHAN SONNET
 Rhyme Scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
 Divided into an octave (eight lines) and a
sestet (six lines)
 The first eight lines are related in content
 Line nine is called “The Turn”
Shift in rhyme pattern
Change in subject matter
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 SPENSERIAN SONNET
 Rhyme Scheme: ababbcbccdcdee
 Format
Similar to English Sonnet's Format
12 line problem
2 line solution (closing couplet)

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