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Italian sonnet

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Italian sonnet

Italian sonnet
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) another term for Petrarchan sonnet
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Noun1.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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The third quatrain gives the Italian sonnet its final cognitive extension, like the English form.
00 1-480-727-6503 Written by Professor Dvora Bregman, The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet During the Renaissance and the Baroque examines the history of the Hebrew sonnet from its inception circa the year 1300 in Italy, almost parallel to the first Italian sonnets, to its spread and metamorphosis throughout Europe and the Turkish Empire.
14) Some fifteen or sixteen years later, Hopkins was to offer similar pronouncements on the sonnet form in a letter to Richard Watson Dixon, carefully distinguishing between the Shakespearian sonnet and the Italian sonnet, 'which is the sonnet proper'.
 
 
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