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Italian sonnet

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Italian sonnet

n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) another term for Petrarchan sonnet
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Petrar′chan son′net


n.
a sonnet form, popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet usu. rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd.
Also called Italian sonnet.
[1905–10]
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Noun 1. Italian sonnet - a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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Rather, I would argue that the coordinating conjunction "Yet" in line nine, like a volta in an Italian sonnet to join the octave with the sestet, logically leads to a sharp contrast between the first part and the last part of the poem, giving it the overall effect of joining both.
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One could say that the sonnets sent to the South African review were Miltonic for Anon, both by virtue of the form adhered to (Italian sonnet: an octave followed by a sestet), and the reference to current political events.
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The Italian sonnet, on the other hand, forces poets to work within even stricter limitations.
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Sulam's sonnets bridge multiple steams of influence--emulation of the magnificent Italian sonnet tradition; echoes of Biblical Hebrew (particularly The Psalms); firm handling of early seventeenth-century poetic trends; and finally distinctive individual talent and style.
Keeping faith: translating the poems of Sarra Copia Sulam
The Early Italian Sonnet: The First Century (1220-1321).
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Later on, the English writer and poet, William Shakespeare, evolved the Italian sonnet into the then popular Shakespearean sonnet consisting of three rhyming quatrains and a couplet.
An analysis of the influences of discourse in the anthology: Zimbabwean poetry in English
Ah, maybe that's it: the sestet, the last six lines of the Italian sonnet form (lines 9-14) after the octave, which begin with a "turn," a change, in their first line.
Charles Wright. Sestets
It's the Italian sonnet turned on its head: 14 lines of meter, not iambic but cardiac, diastolic, systolic.
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Whitman's "sonnet," then, follows the bi-partite structure of the Italian sonnet, and it is that structure that Whitman is borrowing, not such external markers of the form as a specific number of lines or a particular rhyme scheme.
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The critic Charles Gayley's anatomy of the didactic structure of the Italian sonnet is an instructive tool for reading Milton's sonnet: "The octave bears the burden; a doubt, a problem, a reflection, a query, an historical statement, a cry of indignation or desire, a vision of the ideal.
The patience to prevent that murmur: the theodicy of John Milton's nineteenth sonnet
But it was mainly in adapting the prosody of the Italian sonnet to Hebrew, successfully conveying its unique musicality, that Immanuel showed his deepest poetic insight and refinement.
The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque

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