Sonnets

Your homework for the weekend is to read three sonnets: "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," "In the Crowd" and "Sonnet LV." To learn more about the sonnet, you should visit M. Wendy Hennequin's page called "Building Blocks of Sonnets." There is a lot of terminology on this page that we haven't covered yet. The most important parts for our purposes are the sections called "Types of Sonnets" and "Sonnet Structure."
Hennequin also provides some very good advice:

Read sonnets! After reading enough of them, you'll internalize the uses of the structures and won't even think about them.