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The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, [1] although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets. [2] Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan
Petrarch's Sonnet 9 of Canzoniere familiarizes this metaphor and foreshadows its re-emergence in Shakespeare's Sonnets 1–17 of The Sonnets. The principal structuring tool in both the English and Italian sequences is the defined division into two parts.
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
This poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, [1] also known as an Italian sonnet. [1] It is divided into an octave (the first 8 lines introducing the problem of not reading Homer) and a sestet (the last 6 lines introducing the solution of Chapman’s translation and how it makes Keats feel). It follows a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBACDCDCD. [1]
Giustina Levi-Perotti of Sassoferrato was the (likely fictitious) 14th-century Jewish author of two Petrarchan sonnets. [1]The first, a sonnet beginning "Io vorrei pur drizzar queste mie piume," to which Petrarch is said to have replied with his sonnet "La gola, il sonno, e l'oziose piume," was published for the first time in 1564 by G. A. Gilio, who, however, attributed it to Ortensia di ...
The sonnets of Amoretti draw heavily on authors of the Petrarchan tradition, most obviously Torquato Tasso and Petrarch himself. [5] " In Amoretti, Spenser often uses the established topoi, for his sequence imitates in its own way the traditions of Petrarchan courtship and its associated Neoplatonic conceits". [1]
Though the majority of Petrarch's output was in Latin, the Canzoniere was written in the vernacular, a language of trade, despite Petrarch's view that Italian was less adequate for expression. [1] Of its 366 poems, the vast majority are in sonnet form (317), though the sequence contains a number of canzoni (29), sestine (9), madrigals (4), and ...
"Reuben Bright" is a sonnet with decasyllabic lines of iambic pentameter. [2] Its structure is that of the Petrarchan sonnet according to Stephen Regan; [1] its rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDCD EE. In other words, the octet has two quatrains of enclosed rhyme, and the sestet has a quatrain of alternating rhyme and a concluding couplet.