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Petrarch

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Edmund Spenser

William Shakespeare

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John Milton

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Petrarchan Sonnet

• Named after Francesco  Petrarca (1304-1374)
• Also referred to as the Italian Sonnet
• 14 lines of the poem are divided as such:
  Octave (8 lines): abba-abba
  Sestet (6 lines): cde-cde OR cd-cd-cd
• Octave's purpose is to introduce a problem, desire, wish, etc.
• Sestet introduces the volta, signalled by change in rhyme 

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away:

Again I wrote it with a second hand,

But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay

A mortal thing so to immortalize!

For I myself shall like to this decay,

And eek my name be wiped out likewise.

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:

My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,

And in the heavens write your glorious name;

Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,

Our love shall live, and later life renew.

(Edmund Spenser Sonnet 75 from Amoretti)

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd

And every fair from fair sometime declines

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd

But they eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee 

(William Shakespeare   Sonnet 18)

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Shakespearean Sonnet

• Popularized by Shakespeare (1564-1616), even though the Petrarchan sonnet style was extremely popular at the time! 
• 14 lines of the poem are divided as such:
  Three quatrains (4 lines):  abab, cdcd, efef
  One couplet (2 lines): gg 
• The quatrains introduce the problem/theme and explore it
• The volta is found in the couplet, which resolves the theme

Wat is inhoudelijk het verschil tussen de 3 sonnetten?

Wat is de overeenkomst in structuur tussen de 3 sonnetten?

Wat is het belangrijkste strucurele verschil tussen een Italiaans en een Engels sonnet?

1. Italian 2 quartets + 2 tercets, English 1 octave + 2 tercets
2. Italian is 1 octave + 1 sestet, English 3 quatrains + couplet
3. Italian 3 quatrains + tercet, English 2 quatrains + 3 couplets
4. Italian 1 octave + 2 tercets, English 1 octave + 1 quatrain + 1 couplet

Waar kun je het eerst aan zien of een sonnet English of Italian is?

Petrach

Wyatt

Spenser

Shakespeare

abba

abba

cde/cdc

cde/dcd

abab

 cdcd 

efef 

gg

abba

abba

cddc/cdcd

ee

abab

bcbc

cdcd

ee

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