Georgia Standard ELAGSE11-12RL10: By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in grades 11-12 College & Career Readiness text complexity band independently and proficiently.
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
*Assignment: Shakespeare’s sonnets are composed of 14 lines, which are written in iambic pentameter, and most written in Elizabethan style with the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg.
Create a 21st century style version of this sonnet in your own words.
(Remember to include 14 lines, rhyme scheme, 3 quatrains, 1 couplet, and the volta).
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
*Assignment: Shakespeare’s sonnets are composed of 14 lines, which are written in iambic pentameter, and most written in Elizabethan style with the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg.
Create a 21st century style version of this sonnet in your own words.
(Remember to include 14 lines, rhyme scheme, 3 quatrains, 1 couplet, and the volta).