FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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iambic pentameter
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tetrameter couplets
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heroic couplets
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Shakespearean sonnets
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Detailed explanation-1: -L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (The Cheerful Man, the Thoughtful Man and the Moderate Man), HWV 55, is a pastoral ode by George Frideric Handel based on the poetry of John Milton.
Detailed explanation-2: -The highly digressive style Milton employs in L’Allegro and Il Penseroso dually precludes any summary of the poems’ dramatic action as it renders them interpretively ambiguous to critics.
Detailed explanation-3: -Form and Meter. Both “L’Allegro” and Il Penseroso” begin with ten-line introductions in which the rhyme scheme (abbacddeec) resembles the Italian sonnet (abbaabbacdeede), and the line lengths (alternating between 6 and 10 syllables) resemble the Italian canzone (alternating between 7 and 11 syllables).
Detailed explanation-4: -The images are of L’Allegro and Il Penseroso by John Milton. L’Allegro is a pastoral poem by John Milton published in his 1645 Poems. L’Allegro is invariably paired with the contrasting pastoral poem, Il Penseroso, which depicts a similar day spent in contemplation and thought.