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Each line of the sonnet by Shakespeare is listed and numbered. Opposite of the line is the major error in the way that line was read.

"My Mistress's Eyes" - Lines for Listening

1. My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun;
2. Coral is far more red than her lip's red;
3. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun,
4. If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.
5. I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
6. But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
7. In some perfumes there is more delight
8. Than the breath with which my mistress reeks.
9. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
10. Music hath a far more pleasing sound;
11. I grant I never saw a goddess go;
12.My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
13. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
14. As any she belied with false compare.

Errors in Performance

1. sibilance, stutter
2. stumbling
3. phrasing errors

4. over-emphasis

5. poor breath control
6. volume to low (too quiet)
7. no enunciation
8. over-enunciation (punching sound)
9. nasality
10. mispronunciation
11. not warmed up (gravel)
12. no expression

13. not warmed up (screaching)

14. slurred speach


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