Hello Year 7,
Thanks again to everybody who
completed last week’s ‘Metrical Challenge’. There’s another merit on EduLink
for every one of you (or one’s on the way). The metre in last week’s couplets
fitted much more consistently into iambic pentameter, which is what we’re
trying to perfect so that we can write full sonnets from next week. Well done!
Check out these great examples
from last week.
This lovely poem in heroic couplets was written
by Meisha in 7B:
The trees are swaying
in the silent breeze
The sky is full of
merry buzzing bees.
The parks are filled
with people having meetings,
People in their
gardens doing weeding.
The sound of people
talking in the market
Folk in Laura Ashley
buying carpets.
I hear the stunning
sound of tweeting birds,
And pleasant little
clinkling of some pearls.
Here are two great couplets by Poppy, also in
7B:
The birds are tweeting sweetly in the tree,
Until this evening when again they’ll flee.
The soldier went to go and see his master
But when he reached him there was a disaster.
Here’s this week’s work:
1) Watch these videos to develop your knowledge
of different poetic metres:
The images below explain the most common rhythms and metres that you’ll encounter. (Remember, a stressed syllable is marked by a /). We can identify the way a poetic line is written by using these two bits of information:
Remember, we’re focusing on
sonnets, so we’ll continue to focus on iambic pentameter in our writing.
3) Read this week’s sonnet and answer the
questions that follow (if you are viewing on an Apple device and
cannot see a full-screen or download button, click here for a WORD | PDF):
4) Remind
yourself of the different types of line endings, especially the difference
between cross-rhyme and envelope rhyme. You’ll need this knowledge to
do this week’s metrical challenge.
5) Metrical challenge 3: Quatrains
Write at least two quatrains in iambic pentameter: one using cross-rhyme (as used in a
Shakespearean sonnet) and one using envelope
rhyme (as used
in a Petrarchan sonnet).
Have a look at the powerpoint below for guidance and advice.
You might need a
rhyming dictionary too!
When you’ve finished, send your
best quatrains (or all of them!) to Mr Muralee in an email. Let me know if you
are happy for me to share them in next week’s blog. Make sure you put the name
of your English teacher in your email too.
Good luck!
That’s it for this week. Next week, you’ll put together everything
you’ve learnt so far by writing your first sonnet!
Please get in touch if you need any help.
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
P.S. Here’s my couplet from last week, (badly) adapted into
a quatrain using envelope rhyme:
I hear the mowers rumbling and the sound
Of buzzing bees and the whirr of a drone
That high above the garden’s trees has flown;
I track its progress, watching from the ground.
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