Poetry, poetry, poetry!

Hi guys! Sorry, I didn't get a chance to post yesterday! 

So, is your head swimming with alphabet soup and rhyming couplets after yesterday's discussion? We've got Petrarch and Shakespeare. They both wrote sonnets, which we learned was a 14-line type of poem that juxtaposes two ideas in order to communicate a point. 

Sonnets written in the Petrarchan style had two parts, called an octave and a sestet. The first 8 lines (octove) had a rhyme scheme something like abbaabba, followed by the six lines of c's, d's, and e rhymes, not usually ending in a couplet.

The Shakespearean sonnets usually went more like ababcdcdefef, followed by a rhyming couplet [gg].  This format was better suited to the English language because of it's flexibility and easier rhyme scheme. 

Both kinds of sonnet contain what we call "the turn," where the rhyme scheme changes, signifying a change in thought.

SO, in the packet of poems I gave you (feel free to explore more of them!), there are five religious poems at the end. For a journal entry due tomorrow, please pick out one of the five and tell me:

1. the rhyme scheme,
   
2. followed by a paragraph on what two ideas, images, objects, etc the poem is juxtaposing, where the turn is, and what is the poem's final conclusion or question raised. 
   

As, always, please let me know if you have any qestions!