The fourteen lines of a Petrarchan sonnet is most famous for its division into an octave (8 lines with a rhyme scheme abbaabba) and a sestet (6 lines with a rhyme scheme of cdecde or cdcdcd). The Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet is a sonnet form named after Francesco Petrarch and first introduced to English poetry in the 16th century by Sir Thomas Wyatt. The sonnet is a fourteen line poem written in Iambic Pentameter with a rhyme scheme particular to the type of sonnet it is. We will also be looking at the Romantic poets and how they comment on human existence, a theme which later carries over to the Victorian period and the 20th century poets. We will trace the sonnet form back to it’s early origins with Petrarch and Shakespeare, and show how the themes and style of the sonnet have changed to accommodate the issues of Nature, transcendence, imagination, supernatural interaction, and love brought to life by the Romantics. What our page attempts to do is collectively reconcile and represent the many prevalent themes running through much of the Romantic writing, especially through one of the more popular mediums – the sonnet. The Romantic Movement in British Literature that occurred from 1785-1830, just following the Augustan Age.
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