Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarchan_sonnet
Description: WEBThe Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets.
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Link: https://poemanalysis.com/poetic-form/petrarchan-sonnet/
Description: WEBThe Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is one of the two major sonnet forms, the other being Shakespearean/Elizabethan. This sonnet form has been used by a wide variety of poets since its conception but like all sonnets, it has fallen out of favor since the Modernist movement of the early to mid-1900s.
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Link: https://artincontext.org/petrarchan-sonnet/
Description: WEBMar 5, 2024 · The Petrarchan sonnet is a poem that forms part of the tradition of sonnet structures. This means that it has 14 lines like all sonnets, but it has a specific structure that is unique to it. The Petrarchan sonnet has been a major influence on Italian literature, and, by extension, all the countries touched by Italian poetry.
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Link: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100320511
Description: WEB5 days ago · Characteristic of, or derived from, the work of the major Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), especially his sonnets and other love lyrics in Italian. The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is divided into an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet normally rhyming cdecde, and thus avoids the final couplet ...
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Link: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-what-is-a-petrarchan-sonnet-learn-about-petrarchan-sonnets-with-examples
Description: WEBJun 7, 2021 · Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 3 min read. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” So begins “Sonnet Number 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This line, published in 1850, is many readers’ …
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Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/sonnet
Description: WEBThere are many different types of sonnets. The Petrarchan sonnet, perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
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Link: https://interestingliterature.com/2023/05/best-examples-of-petrarchan-sonnets/
Description: WEBBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is the oldest of the two greatest and best-known types of sonnet. Although the invention of the sonnet form precedes him – the Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini is thought to have invented the sonnet in the thirteenth century –….
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Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70051/learning-the-sonnet
Description: WEBMillay’s sonnet offers us another good model for a sonnet exercise: try writing a Petrarchan sonnet. In the octave, speak literally about a feeling or problem. In the sestet, beginning with the word “thus” or another quick way to signal the turn, come up with a …
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Link: https://poemanalysis.com/best-poems/petrarchan/
Description: WEB1 Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth. 2 Holy Sonnets: At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow by John Donne. 3 The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde. 4 I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 5 Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
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Link: https://www.dbu.edu/mitchell/world-literature-i/petrarch.html
Description: WEBCharacteristics of the (Petrarchan) Sonnet. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. An iamb is a poetic foot with a count of two syllables, where the second one is stressed. Pentameter is a poetic line with five feet: E.g. "Loving /in truth, /and fain /in verse /my love /to show." Three stanzas -- two quatrains and a sestet.
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