Sonnet Grading Rubric

Category A B C D F
    
Format: Flawless use of
iambic
1-2 errors 3 errors 4 errors More than 4
errors
Iambic pentameter

Pentameter
    
Rhyme abab cdcd efef
gg
1 error in rhyme 2 errors 3 errors 4 or more errors

Scheme
  Contains a turn or   May not contain 
Rhyming Contains a clear
turn or reversal reversal
May contain a
turn or reversal a turn or reversal
Does not contain
a turn or reversal
Couplet
    
Content Clear subject,
speaker, tone,
Clear subject and
message.
Contains a
subject, and
May not contain
a subject or
Does not contain
a subject or
and message  Demonstrates use message. message. message.
of speaker and  Speaker and  Does not  Does not
tone. tone may be demonstrate use demonstrate use
unclear. of a speaker. of a speaker.
 Tone is unclear.  Tone lacks
control.