LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Trochaic trimeter
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Terza rima
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Iambic pentameter
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Anapestic pentameter
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Detailed explanation-1: -The original Italian sonnet form consists of a total of fourteen hendecasyllabic lines (in English sonnets, iambic pentameter is used) in two parts, the first part being an octave and the second being a sestet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Called the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet, this sonnet structure consists of first an octave (eight lines of verse in iambic pentameter) and then a sestet (six lines). The rhyme scheme is abba abba; the rhyme scheme in the sestet can vary a little but is typically cde cde or cdc dcd.
Detailed explanation-3: -Named after 14-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, the Petrarchan sonnet is a 14-line poem that uses iambic pentameter and a somewhat flexible rhyme scheme.
Detailed explanation-4: -Petrarchan sonnet. noun. a sonnet form associated with the poet Petrarch, having an octave rhyming a b b a a b b a and a sestet rhyming either c d e c d e or c d c d c dAlso called: Italian sonnet.
Detailed explanation-5: -Petrarchan sonnets often have ten syllables per line. Since there are fourteen lines, this makes a total of about 140 syllables in the entire sonnet.