Sonnets: Free Notebooking Pages

by Jimmie Lanley on December 8, 2010

Here are some notebooking pages that you can use with a Shakespeare or poetry study.

One page has numbered lines to copy a sonnet. You will probably find the lines too short for writing the entire sonnet. Actually, I designed the page for copying the last few words of each line to focus on the rhyme scheme which is labeled on the right side.

A second page gives space to define sonnet related vocabulary — quatrain, couplet, and iambic pentameter.

If you’re studying Shakespeare, be sure to look at the Words Coined by Shakespeare Free Notebooking Pages too.

{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Susan December 10, 2010 at 4:14 PM

What a wonderful idea for a name for a free notebooking page site. I am enjoying the posts, since I just discovered your new site from your Collage blog. I thought of Cicely Barker immediately. And wanted to mention I’m thinking of the empty chair as I have been reading of the events most recent knowing. . . for much wisdom comes much sorrow and to who much is given much is required.

The little Christmas tree was born
And dwelt in open air;
It did not guess how bright a dress
Some day its boughs would wear;
Brown cones were all, it though, a tall
And grown-up Fir would bear.

O little Fir! Your forest home
Is far and far away;
And here in doors these boughs of yours
With coloured balls are gay,
With candle-light, and tinsel bright,
For this is Christmas Day!

A dolly-fairy stands on top,
Till children sleep; then she
(A live one now!) from bough to bough
Goes gliding silently.
O magic sight, this joyous night!
O laden, sparkling tree!

~ Cicely Mary Barker

May your new blog be a magic sight!

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jimmie December 17, 2010 at 1:54 PM

Susan, thanks for your poetic comment.

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weebeedee January 4, 2011 at 4:53 PM

thanks….I love your fairy dust….keep notebooking….

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