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sonnet means

little sound or song

how many lines does a sonnet have

14

who perfected the Petrarchan sonnet

Francesco Petrarca

how many lines does the Petrarchan sonnet have

eight lines, called the octave, followed by six line section

what is the transition between the Petrarchan sonnet called

volta

what is the Shakespearean sonnet

an english poem based off the Petrarchan sonnet

how many lines is the Shakespearean sonnet

14 lines long, using a form that follows three four line units (quatrains, followed by couplet)

how does the Shakespearean sonnet ryhme

meter, iambic pentameter

Who was Francesco Petrarch?

- great fame (poet and scholar)

- balance worldly ambitions and desires

- Loved a woman named Laura

- Unrequited love

- She died of the plague

- Set the tone of the Renaissance for bittersweet love lyrics in various european languages

Who was Pierre de Ronsard

- was in an influential group known as the Pleiade (6 other poets)

- Group used vernacular in their odes, elgies,m and satires based on the works of classical Greek and Roman poets

- Four books of Odes (1550-152)

- "the Prince of Poets"

Who was William Shakespeare

- Sonnets consisted of 154 poems (sequence)

- written most likely in his middle years

- mysterious story that has intrigued scholars for centuries

- most are addressed to a young nobel man