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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, 3 September 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.
Most of the sonnets there are Petrarchan (here used as a purely stylistic term since Dante predated Petrarch). Chapter VII gives the sonnet "O voi che per la via", with two sestets (AABAAB AABAAB) and two quatrains (CDDC CDDC), and Ch. VIII, "Morte villana", with two sestets (AABBBA AABBBA) and two quatrains (CDDC CDDC).
The sonnet is written in the Petrarchan form and was subsequently collected among the "Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty" written in response to events at home and abroad during the long series of Napoleonic wars. In Wordsworth's eyes, Milton's "soul was like a star, and dwelt apart", independent of the corrupting pressures ...
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]
The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet. [13] The title of the poem and the first two lines reference the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a famously gigantic sculpture that stood beside or straddled the entrance to the harbor of the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC. In the poem, Lazarus contrasts that ...
"London, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CDD ECE. The poem is written in the second person and addresses the late poet John Milton, who lived from 1608–1674 and is most famous for having written Paradise Lost.