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Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet Lesson PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

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"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and Rossetti.

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iambic pentameter, quatrains, john milton, lewis carroll, edgar allan poe, henry wadsworth longfellow, jabberwocky, john keats, lord byron, robert frost, william shakespeare, william wordsworth

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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