Week 7: Poetic Language: Couplets, Quatrain, and Rhyme Royal

Week 7: Poetic Language: Couplets, Quatrain, and Rhyme Royal

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.

Here are the writing assignments from Week 2-7.  You can still do these and turn them in!



Week 2: What is a stereotype and do we have them today?



Week 3: Is usury morally wrong?



Week 4: Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts    Himself.  Does He?  Explain.



Week 5: Which is more important - romantic love or friendship? Why?



Week 6: Write a report on a mythical character.



Week 7: When evil is done to someone, do they become evil? Explain.





Bonus Questions:



Week 2: Why did they build the city of Venice?



Week 3: Why are ships called Argosies?



Week 4: What is the definition of irony?



Week 5: What is the hat called that the Jews wear?



Week 6: Where is Morocco?  Where is Arragon?



Week 7: What are the scriptural teachings on money lending?