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  2. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems in his autograph notebook, known as the "Trinity Manuscript" from its location in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. He gave it the number 19, but in the published book it was numbered 16, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] so both numbers are used for it.

  3. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    This was used by Alexander Pushkin for his novel in verse Eugene Onegin and has also been described as the 'Onegin sonnet', since it consists of fourteen lines. It is, however, aberrant in rhyme scheme and the number of stresses per line and is better described as having only a family resemblance to the sonnet. [ 157 ]

  4. English Romantic sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The very winds and waters are exhorted to protest against the intrusion of the line so close to his grounds at Rydal Mount, but the sonnet's real target is as much the values of middle class utilitarianism. [52] There is a similar technological and class ambivalence about the 1846 sonnet on "Illustrated Books and Newspapers".

  5. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Ellipses–Leaving out part of a sentence or an event by substituting it with ellipses is a stylistic element. It represents an omission of words which helps in advancing the story. Parentheses–It is technically used to separate and subordinate segments of a prose sentence. In poetry, parentheses draws attention to what is encased within them.

  7. Sonnet 20 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.

  8. Crown of sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Corona di rime per festeggiare il natalizio giorno di fille from 1748. An advanced form of crown of sonnets is also called a sonnet redoublé or heroic crown, comprising fifteen sonnets, in which the sonnets are linked as described above, but the final binding sonnet is made up of all the first or the last lines of the preceding fourteen, in order.

  9. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    In Shakespeare's early comedies, the sonnets and sonnet-making of his characters are often objects of satire. In Two Gentlemen of Verona, sonnet-writing is portrayed cynically as a seduction technique. [63] In Love's Labour's Lost, sonnets are portrayed as evidence that love can render men weak and foolish. [64]