HOMEWORK CHECK

 Your homework was to complete

the dialogue translation
worksheet you received Friday.
 It is due today.
 Please take out your homework
and be seated quietly.
 We’re going to go over your

homework together in class.

 First, think

THINK, PAIR, SHARE

about the
 Warm Up, Monday, November 3 question and
jot down
notes about
 Shakespeare wrote 154 your answer.
(5 minutes)
sonnets, or poems, in his Next, get in
lifetime, and they are still pairs and
groups of
considered to be some of threes with
the people
the most beautiful pieces of who sit
beside you
poetry today. Why do you and talk
think what he wrote is still about what
you wrote
so popular? down. (5
minutes)

Finally, we’ll
regroup as a
class and
share what
you came up
with
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
Romeo and Juliet
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
 80% of the poems Shakespeare wrote are
written in blank verse (metered – or sound
like a poem, without rhyming).
 William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in
his lifetime.
 There are three famous sonnets in Romeo
and Juliet.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SONNET?
 The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet
is one of three sonnets found in
the play.
 Chorus.
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
WHAT MAKES A SONNET… A
SONNET?

Sonnets are 14 line

poems.
Sonnets have definite
rhythm and rhyming
patterns.
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
Rhyming Pattern
ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING
PATTERN
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
E
F
E
F
G
G
ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING
PATTERN
 Line 1: A Two households, both  Line 1: A
alike in dignity,  Line 2: B In fair Verona, where we
 Line 2: B lay our scene,
 Line 3: A From ancient grudge  Line 3: A
break to new mutiny,  Line 4: B Where civil blood makes
 Line 4: B civil hands unclean.
 Line 5: C From forth the fatal loins  Line 5: C
of these two foes,  Line 6: D A pair of star-crossed
 Line 6: D lovers take their life;
 Line 7: C Whose misadventured  Line 7: C
piteous overthrows  Line 8: D Do with their death bury
 Line 8: D their parents’ strife.
 Line 9: E The fearful passage of  Line 9: E
their death-marked love,  Line 10: F And the continuance of
 Line 10: F their parents’ rage,
 Line 11: E Which, but their  Line 11: E
children’s end, naught  Line 12: F Is now the two hours’
could remove, traffic or our stage;
 Line 12: F  Line 13: G
 Line 13: G  Line 14: G
 Line 14: G
ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING
PATTERN
There is
 Chorus.
Two households, both alike in dignity,

always a
In fair Verona, where we lay our
scene,
From ancient grudge break to new

couplet at
mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil
hands unclean.

the end of From forth the fatal loins of these two

foes,

any kind of
A pair of star-crossed lovers take
their life;
Whose misadventured piteous

sonnet.
overthrows
Do with their death bury their
parents’ strife.

A couplet The fearful passage of their death-

marked love,
And the continuance of their

consists of parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught
could remove,

two lines
Coupletin our
Is now the two hours’ traffic of
stage;

the same The which if you with patient

ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil
shall strive to mend.
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
Rhythm Patterns
ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN
 In Shakespeare’s sonnets there are 10
syllables per line.
 Let’s look at the first two lines of the third
sonnet in Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus lines
at the beginning of Act II.
Now old desire doth in his
deathbed lie,
And young affection gapes to
be his heir;

 Count the syllables in each line.

ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN
 Shakespeare’s sonnets are spoken using a
rhythm pattern called “iambic
pentameter”.
 That means every other syllable is stressed
in a sing-song way.

 Example:

Now old desire doth

in his deathbed
lie.
ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN
 Now you try:

And young affection

gapes to be his heir

That fair for which

love ground for and
ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN

With tender Juliet

matched, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is beloved
and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the
charm of looks;
But to his foe supposed
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
Couplet Writing
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN
 First, write a line that could be in a sonnet.
 Remember, it should have 10 syllables.
Count them out on your fingers!
 Next, write a second line, (also with 10
syllables), that rhymes with your first line.
Now you have a couplet!
 You will be asked to share some of your
couplets aloud in class, so be appropriate!
 You’ve got 5 minutes to write your couplet.
SONNET TRANSLATION
Romeo and Juliet, Act I Scene 5
ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET
TRANSLATION
 If I profane with my  If I get you dirty with
unworthiest hand my hand that
 This holy shrine, the doesn’t deserve you
gentle sin is this:  Your hand is like a
 My lips, two holy place, and this
blushing pilgrims, will be what I do for
ready stand you:
 To smooth that  My lips are like two

rough touch with a worshippers, ready

tender kiss. to kiss your hand
 Smooth the
roughness of your
hand with a gentle
kiss
ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET
TRANSLATION
 Good pilgrim, you do  Worshipper, there’s
wrong your hand too nothing wrong with
much, your hand
 Which mannerly  You’re showing
devotion shows in proper attention by
this; holding my hand
 For saints have  Because saints have
hands that pilgrims’ hands and
hands do touch, worshippers touch
 And palm to palm is them
holy palmers kiss.  And when they
touch palms it’s like
a holy kiss
ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET
TRANSLATION
 Have not saints lips,  Don’t both saints
and holy palmers and their
too? worshippers have
 Ay, pilgrim, lips that lips?
they must use in  Yes, worshipper, but
prayer. lips they use in
 O, then, dear saint, prayer
let lips do what  Then, holy Juliet, let
hands do! our lips touch the
 They pray; grant way hands do
thou, lest faith turn  Let our lips touch in
to despair. prayer, please,
unless your faith in
holiness has turned
to sadness
ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET
TRANSLATION
 Saints do not move,  But saints don’t
though grant for move, unless
prayers’ sake. they’re praying
 Then move not while  Then don’t move
my prayer’s effect I while I kiss you
take.