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Sonnets

Sonnets. Sonnets spenserian. Gracie Everett. What is a Sonnet?. a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. History. Originated in Europe, mainly Provence & Italy.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets Sonnets spenserian Gracie Everett

  2. What is a Sonnet? a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

  3. History • Originated in Europe, mainly Provence & Italy. • The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonnet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound".

  4. Examples VisionsFrancesco Petrarch (1304-1374) Being one day at my window all alone,So manie strange things happened me to see,As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,So faire as mote the greatest god delite;Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.Of which the one was blacke, the other white:With deadly force so in their cruell race They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,That at the last, and in short time, I spide,Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautieOft makes me wayle so hard a desire. (Trans. Edmund Spenser)

  5. Spenserian Sonnets • variant on the English form is the Spenserian sonnet, named after Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599) in which the rhyme scheme is, abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee. A Spenserian sonnet does not appear to require that the initial octave set up a problem that the closing sestet answers, as with a Petrarchan sonnet. • Instead, the form is treated as three quatrains connected by the interlocking rhyme scheme and followed by a couplet. The linked rhymes of his quatrains suggest the linked rhymes of such Italian forms as terza rima.

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