Guided Practice Now that you've learned a little bit about the sonnet and its structure, here's a chance to see if you can apply that knowledge. To the right is a line from a sonnet written by Countee Cullen called "From the Dark Tower." Read the line and try to identify the stressed syllables.

Click on the syllables above that you think are stressed.

Were you able to identify the stressed syllables?

The stressed syllables in this line are pretty easy to spot, but in some poems it is more difficult. A word or syllable might be pronounced with stress by one speaker, but unstressed by another. It helps to look at the context of the line for clues. Would you like to read Countee Cullen's entire poem "From the Dark Tower"?