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Shakespeare and Sonnets

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number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet

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154

number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote

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quatrain

four line stanza

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couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit; they end a Shakespearean sonnet

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regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

meter

rhyme scheme

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rhyme scheme of a sonnet

AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD EE

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme

meter

rhyme

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organ that iambic pentameter mimics in the human body

heart

liver

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an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

trochee

iamb

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five feet are called

pentameter

rhythm

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poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

iambic pentameter

centimeter duo

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syllables in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet

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Iambic Pentameter or Not? today

IP

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Iambic Pentameter or Not? Sunday

Not

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Is this line written in iambic pentameter? “I came to see a man about a horse”.

IP

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Is this line written in iambic pentameter? I had a real big lunch today.

Not

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