Hi kids, you are writing sonnets, "little songs," today. They are 14-line love poems with a very specific pattern. Here are some terms that you need to know:
Stanza - a group of lines of poetry (think of a paragraph of poetry)
Quatrain - a stanza of four lines
Couplet - a stanza of two lines that rhyme at the end.
End-Rhyme - when the last words of two or more lines of poetry rhyme with each other.
Meter - The arrangement of a line of poetry by the number of syllables and the rhythm of accented (or stressed) syllables.
Iamb - a pair of syllables in which the first syllable has a soft beat, (less emphasis) and the second syllable has a strong beat (more emphasis). (click here for more info)
Iambic Pentameter - when a line has a five iambs in it for a total of 10 syllables.
Rhyme Scheme - a pattern of rhyming lines (end-rhyme) in a poem.
