Sonnet
 Narrative
Poetry
  • Poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.
  • Each line contains ten syllables.
  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg


Example:

From Sonnets
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

  • A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story.
  • Narrative poems have a plot, setting, characters, dialogue, and theme.
  • Organized in stanzas.

Example:
  • Ballads: tells a simple or dramatic story
  • The Divine Comedy by: Dante
  • The Canterbury Tales by: Geoffrey Chaucer

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