LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Cantos
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Stanzas
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Lines
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Chapters
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Detailed explanation-1: -Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, autobiographical poem in four cantos by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Cantos I and II were published in 1812, Canto III in 1816, and Canto IV in 1818.
Detailed explanation-2: -Don Juan is divided up into 16 parts, termed ‘cantos’. The storyline begins with Juan’s upbringing and his education. At 16 he has an affair with a married woman, Donna Julia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem has four cantos written in Spenserian stanzas, which consist of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine (a twelve syllable iambic line), and has rhyme pattern ABABBCBCC.
Detailed explanation-4: -Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands.