American Literature 246 Web Assignment #4

(20 points possible)

E Perhaps print this page out and check off the steps as you complete them.

DUE: Beginning of class, Monday, November 6, 2006

Web Assignment—20 points

The Poet in Us All (revisited)

Directions: Please create an original sonnet conforming to either the Petrachan or Shakespearean structure.

· Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.

· A rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CD CD CD (Petrarchan)

OR

· A rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Shakespearean)

Some sample opening lines follow:

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In spring the music from a different voice. (seasonal)

Yes, love can shape a mind into a heart (fleetingly hopeful)

My lit instructor is a little warped (some truth to this)

Life’s joys cannot make up for all this pain (a bit dark).

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A somber cloud rolled o’er the forlorn hills (more than a bit dark)

Our dreams reveal the depths of our ______ (needs an iamb to finish it).