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... sestet ) . In a Shakespearian sonnet the turning point of the poem is held off until the end of the twelfth line ; in the Petrarcan sonnet it comes at the end of the eighth . Frequently , the position of the pause between octave and sestet ...
... sestet ) . In a Shakespearian sonnet the turning point of the poem is held off until the end of the twelfth line ; in the Petrarcan sonnet it comes at the end of the eighth . Frequently , the position of the pause between octave and sestet ...
Page 58
... sestet turn is present but is held off until the beginning of the tenth line , leaving Milton with just sufficient space for the utterance of his powerful second wave of emotion . The danger of the Shakespearian sonnet is that the final ...
... sestet turn is present but is held off until the beginning of the tenth line , leaving Milton with just sufficient space for the utterance of his powerful second wave of emotion . The danger of the Shakespearian sonnet is that the final ...
Page 59
... sestet - quite apart from the fact that they are very bad rimes . Of course , this sonnet is neither strictly Shakespearian , nor truly Petrarcan in structure . It has an octave - sestet pause and the octave rimes in the Petrarcan ...
... sestet - quite apart from the fact that they are very bad rimes . Of course , this sonnet is neither strictly Shakespearian , nor truly Petrarcan in structure . It has an octave - sestet pause and the octave rimes in the Petrarcan ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write