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links for inspiration
recommended reading
listen to a sonnet
2. I shall forget you presently my dear, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
3. Chapter 2, verse 1 of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
4. Amor constante mas alla de la mente by Francisco de Queredo
1. Scorn Not the Sonnet by William Wordsworth
5. My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun by William Shakespeare
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
Masculine and Feminine Rhymes
masculine ends in a stress ( / ), feminine in
a non-stress ( _ )
Anapest
A foot with three
syllables:
non-stressed ( _ )
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( / )
Amphibrach
A foot with three
syllables:
non-stress ( _ )
stress ( / )
non-stress ( _ )
Dactyl
A foot with three syllables:
stressed ( / )
non-stressed ( _ )
non-stressed ( _ )
Amphimacer
A foot with three syllables:
stressed ( /)
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( /)
Iamb
A foot with two syllables:
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( / )
The basic foot for sonnets
and
heroic verse
Iambic Pentameter
penta = five
meter = measures
Iambic Pentameter is five
iambs in a row.
They are the building blocks
of sonnets (in English)
Trochee
A foot with two syllables:
stressed ( / )
non-stressed ( _ )
The opposite of the iamb
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