It is the first and last sound we ever hear, it is the rhythm of the human heart beat.Ħ Pentameter? Well an ‘iamb’ is ‘dee Dum’ – it is the heart beat. It consists of a line of five iambic feet, ten syllables with five unstressed and five stressed syllables. Quite simply, it sounds like this: dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses.ĥ Heartbeat. A sonnet introduces a problem or question in the beginning, and a resolution is offered after the turn.Ĥ Iambic Pentameter Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. A sonnet can be about any subject, though they are often about love or nature. ![]() The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man, The last 28 to a woman.ģ What is a sonnet? Iambic what? Oh dear, this is going to be a weird lesson! A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. ![]() ![]() They covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. Presentation on theme: "Shakespeare: Sonnets & Iambic Pentameter"- Presentation transcript:ġ Shakespeare: Sonnets & Iambic PentameterĢ William Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets
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