Shakespeare: Sonnet Scramble

The English or Shakespearean Sonnet

FORM: The English sonnet has the simplest and most flexible pattern of all sonnets, consisting of
3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and 1 couplet:

a

b

a

b

c

d

c

d

e

f

e

f

   g

   g

METER: Shakespeare's sonnets were written in iambic pentameter.
Iambic describes the "foot"(feet in plural),  or the group of syllables. Each foot is made up of two syllables. The first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. The iambic rhythm often occurs naturally in English.

da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

×   /   ×   /   ×   /   ×   /   ×   /

Pentameter means that each line contains 5 iambic "feet", or 10 syllables.

Sonnet Activity

I am going to pass out a line (or 2) from TWO of Shakespeare's sonnets to each student.
As a class, your task is to put the lines in the correct order.

Sonnets

Teacher's notes

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