Week 6: Poetic Language-Couplets, Quantrain , and Rhyme Royal

Week 6: Poetic Language-Couplets, Quantrain , and Rhyme Royal

This week we learned about rhyming schemes.  Patience gave us a presentation on the Geography of England.  Portia gave us the vocabulary word and we read Act III Scene 1. 


 
Rhyme Scheme

Quantrain
a verse/stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Example: Hamlet Act III Scene 2 page 114
Player Queen
(a) O! confound the rest;
(a) Such love must needs be treason in my breast;
(b) In second husband let me be accurst;
(b) None wed the second but who kill’d the first.

Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter, two successive rhyming lines in a verse

Example: Act II Scene 2 page 79
Polonius
…That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,…
Example: Act I Scene 4 page 57
Hamlet
…By Heaven! I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me:
I say away! Go on, I’ll follow thee.

Rhyme Royal
Definition of rhyme royal. : a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc.

Example: In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare used a seven-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc.
(a)  Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth,
(b)  A captive victor that hath lost in gain;
(a)  Bearing away the wound that nothing healeth,
(b)  The scar that will despite of cure remain;
(b)  Leaving his spoil perplex’d in greater pain.
(c)    She bears the load of lust he left behind,
(c)    And he the burden of a guilty mind.

Assignment Reminder:


Writing Assignment: Is there life after death? Describe what it would be like if there isn’t or of there is. 

 Bonus Question:  What is the climate like in Elsinore?

 October 24th Presentation: Juliet (Elise) What did people wear?

 October 24th Vocabulary Share: Rodrigo (Gavin)

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