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A Lesson on Iambic Pentameter and the Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme

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A Lesson on Iambic Pentameter

and the Shakespearian

Rhyme Scheme

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Iambic Pentameter

An iamb is a prosodic foot of

two syllables, an unstressed followed by a stressed one.

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OK, then what’s prosodic?

Prosodic comes from prosody which means…

the study of poetic meters

and verse.

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Pentameter means?

Pent(a) is

Well, let’s look at the roots---

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FIVE

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METER means…

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Meter means…

measure

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Thus, pentameter means…

five measures.

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TogetherIAMBIC

means that you have five measures of unstressed and stressed syllables.

PENTAMETER

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This is what you find in a Shakespearian Sonnet.

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What if…

I don’t understand when a syllable is stressed or unstressed?

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…then it’s time to play with words we know.

Let’s start with names.Say these names and tell me where

the stressed syllable can be found.Mandela Cleopatra FrostBradbury Cisneros MargaretGiovanni California

MississippiO’Connor Whitman

Albertson’sTutankhamen Jimenez Poe

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How about some other words?

summer American hotdogautobiography assessment speechtragedy literature

utensilremember opportunity farewellreflect transpire

prosecutionEndearing friendly persuasiveeulogy understanding

interpretiveInterlopers predict infer

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All words have at least one syllable.

****Each syllable must contain a vowel.

United States of America

How many syllables can you find here?

How many are stressed syllables?

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Let’s practice with more syllables.

“The choices you make dictate the life you lead.”How many syllables are unstressed?How many are stressed?

“It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.”How many are stressed?How many are unstressed?

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In order to identify a stress or unstressed syllable, you must…

mark each syllable with a stressed or unstressed symbol.

U is unstressed/ is stressed

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Let’s practice with lines.

U / U / U / U / U /Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

U / U / U / U / U /Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

U / U / U / U / URough winds do shake the darling buds of /May.

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Let’s try some more lines. U / U / U / U / U /Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

U / U / U / U / U /Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;

U / U / U / U / U /Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink

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These are iambs…

U / U / U /

U / U /

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Five of these together, in one line, is known as…IAMBIC PENATMETER U / U / U / U / U / IAMB

PENTAMETER= FIVE MEASURES

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Let’s look at those lines again… U / U / U / U / U /Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

U / U / U / U / U /Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

U / U / U / U / U Rough winds do shake the darling buds of /May.

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Now let’s visit a Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometimes declines,By chance or nature’s changing course

untrimmed;

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But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Now shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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What’s the rhyme scheme?

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? AThou art more lovely and more temperate:

BRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

AAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

BSometime to hot the eye of heaven shines,

CAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;

DAnd every fair from fair sometimes declines,

CBy chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;

DBut thy eternal summer shall not fade,

ENor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

FNow shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

EWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:

F So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

G

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Ta Da!!A Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme

A B A B C D C D

E F E F

GG

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Let’s do some MATH!!

Iambic Pentameter ababcdcdefef gg

rhyme scheme (14 lines)

Shakespearian Sonnet

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Are you ready?

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Sonnet Quiz

1. Define iambic pentameter.2. Write a stressed symbol.3. Write an unstressed symbol.4. Write the stress and unstressed symbols

for: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious5. A rhyme scheme is like a _________.6. Write the Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme.7. Who created this rhyme scheme?8. All Shakespearian sonnets must have _____.