FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A sonnet
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A song
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A ballad
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Petrarchan sonnet, perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
Detailed explanation-2: -’How Do I Love Thee, ’ also known as Sonnet 43, is one of Browning’s most famous poems. In it, she addresses her husband, Robert Browning, and lays out the many ways she loves him.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a scholar, Petrarch was an avid collector of Classical texts and he spent lots of his time reading and translating major Greek and Roman works that had not been read for almost a millennium. These works greatly influenced his poetry as he emulated Classical styles, and even commonly wrote in Latin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Petrarch is most famous for his Canzoniere, a collection of vernacular poems about a woman named Laura, whom the speaker loves throughout his life but cannot be with.