Lyric

Poetry
The Renaissance
16-17th century
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Lyric Poetry in the
Renaissance
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The Shakespearean
Sonnet

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Activity
Objectives
Students will be able to identify
the parts of a Shakespearean
sonnet
Students will be able to analyze
a Shakespearean sonnet

Students will be able to create

their own Shakespearean sonnet
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Lyric Poetry
in the
Renaissance
After the Greeks...

● From 14th-17th century,

Renaissance Period saw revival of
classical art, literature, &
philosophy
● 16th century= William Shakespeare
popularized lyric poetry in England
with sonnet
02 The
Shakespear
ean Sonnet
Parts of the Shakespearean
Sonnet
14 lines

Rhyme Scheme

Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme Scheme
Quatrain: 4-line
stanza/ section
ABAB

CDCD

EFEF
Couplet: 2-line
GG stanza/ section
Rhyme Scheme

ABAB
A volta (turn of
CDCD thought) indicates
a transition to the
EFEF final section of
the sonnet
GG
 Iambic
Pentameter
Sonnet 130
Let’s break down one of Shakespeare’s
most popular sonnets!
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the
sun;
Than in the breath that from my
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
mistress reeks.
If snow be white, why then her breasts
I love to hear her speak, yet well I
are dun;
know
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on
That music hath a far more pleasing
her head.
sound;
I have seen roses damasked, red and
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
white,
My mistress, when she walks, treads
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
on the ground.
And in some perfumes is there more
And yet, by heaven, I think my love
delight
as rare
As any she belied with false
compare.
Breakdown: Quatrain
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
Breakdown: Quatrain
2
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
Breakdown: Quatrain
3
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
ground.
Breakdown: Couplet

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.
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 Sound
Familiar
?
The Pop Sonnet

● Take a modern pop song and

“Shakespearify” it!
● Pick one of your favorite (school
appropriate) songs and try
rewriting it into a sonnet
○ Choose a verse from your
song