Renaissance Poetry Writing

Today in class, we worked on writing one of these types of poems.
This poem is due on Friday.
The poem should be typed and an image to accompany
the poem should be included in the document, or drawn on the page.
These will be displayed in class.

PETRARCHAN SONNET                                

8 LINES  (OCTAVE)        

ABBAABBA     

6 LINES  (SESTET)
CDECDE
   

SPENSERIAN SONNET                      

3 QUATRAINS…

ABAB 

BCBC  

CDCD  

EE    (1 COUPLET) 

 SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

 3 QUATRAINS… 

 ABAB

 CDCD

 EFEF    

 GG   (1 COUPLET)                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                          

METAPHYSICAL POETRY—

3 QUATRAINS

YOU SET THE RHYME SCHEME.

SHOULD INCLUDE A CONCEIT 

SHOULD INCLUDE A SUBJECT MATTER 

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