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- The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by...
- that Spenser's Petrarchan allusions and use of Petrarchan precedents cannot be reduced run-of-the-mill imitation. He adapts Petrarchan models and uses...
- given its importance in Petrarch's Il Canzoniere, is also referred to as Petrarchan conceit. It is a comparison in which human experiences are described in...
- rhyme scheme for an octave is ABBA ABBA. An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet. In traditional Italian sonnets...
- influenced by the Romantic-era poetry of Byron and Southey. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC DEDEFF. The poem shows influences...
- A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet, where the rhyme scheme is ABBAABBACDCCDC, as in Longfellow's "Cross...
- centred on the poet's love for Beatrice. Most of the sonnets there are Petrarchan (here used as a purely stylistic term since Dante predated Petrarch)....
- Shakespeare uses Petrarchan imagery while actually undermining it at the same time. Stephen Booth agrees that Shakespeare references Petrarchan works, but Booth...
- Kyrielle Leise Madrigal Maldit-comiat Octave Partimen Pastorela Pastourelle Petrarchan sonnet Planh Reverdie Rondeau Rondel Rondelet Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian...
- located at King's College, Cambridge. Written with fourteen lines in a Petrarchan sonnet form, the poem is divided into an opening octet, and then followed...