A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme and structure. It follows a rhyming pattern and includes iambic pentameter. The most famous example is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which compares the subject's beauty to a summer's day. Sonnets can express love or ideas through constrained form and language.

1. By Elina M.

2. A sonnet is simply a poem written in a
certain format. You can identify a sonnet if
the poem has the following characteristics:
 14 lines. All sonnets have 14 lines which
can be broken down into four sections
called quatrains.

3.  1. They are written in iambic
pentameter. 2. They are fourteen lines
long. 3. They have a set rhyme scheme. 4.
They have a turn or “volta.” 5. They all bear
the name “sonnet.”

5.  SONNET 18Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough
winds do shake the darling buds of May, And
summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And
often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every
fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or
nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy
eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession
of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou
wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to
time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or
eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life
to thee.

6.  Milton! thou shouldst be living at this
hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf
stagnant waters: altar, sword, and
pen,Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and
bower,Have forfeited their ancient English
dowerOf inward happiness. We are selfish
men;Oh! raise us up, return to us again;And give
us manners, virtue, freedom, power.Thy soul was
like a Star, and dwelt apart;Thouhadst a voice
whose sound was like the sea:Pure as the naked
heavens, majestic, free,So didst thou travel on
life's common way,In cheerful godliness; and yet
thy heartThe lowliest duties on herself did lay.

8.  I work and work to get the moves right
 I try to relate to the song but sometimes I can’t
 We are just a week away; I still haven’t got the move right
move

 But I still practice every day, every day I almost have it
 When we get to the day I am as nervous as a person
getting chased by the swat team
 But I try to hold in all the nervousness inside and try to
concentrate
 The closer I get to the time I get more confident in my self

 Its time and when I’m done everyone stands
 When I leave, I leave knowing that I’ve done my best

9.  We looked into the the fridge and it wasn’t good Then
Carlton said “ Dude what is that” And there it was a jar of
mayonnaise. Now the mayonnaise was a creamy color but
 What was on the jar made us jump, it and it had a letter
that said
 WERE WATCHING YOU BETTER WATH YOUR BACK
 And there was a picture of a gun. We had no idea how it
got there
 We were watching are every move Till the door open
and in walked a man and a women dressed in all
black and before we could run they both pulled out a
gun but before they could do anything the jar of
mayonnaise jumped out and beet down the bad guys
he was SUPER MAYONIASE

10.  Miller, Nelson. "Basic Sonnet Forms." Sonnet
Central. Writers Exchange Board, 2010. Web. 30
Mar. 2012.
<http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm>.
 Ennis, Scott. "How to Write a Sonnet." Sonnets by
Scott Ennis. WordPress., 1973. Web. 02 Apr.
2012.
<http://www.sonnettics.com/?page_id=46>.
 Shakespeare, William. "Shakespeare Sonnet 18 -
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day."
Shakespeare Online. Amanda Mabillard, 4 Feb.
2010. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.shakespeare-
online.com/sonnets/18.html>.
 Udiah. "Decision." Peomhunter.com.
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