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It consists of three quatrains, each with an independent rhyme scheme, and ends with a rhymed couplet. In adapting the Italian form, Elizabethan poets gradually developed the other major sonnet form, the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. The Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet characteristically consists of an eight-line octave, rhyming abbaabba, that states a problem, asks a question, or expresses an emotional tension, followed by a six-line sestet, of varying rhyme schemes, that resolves the problem, answers the question, or resolves the tension. The next sign is the nature of the poems rhyme scheme. The first sign is that the poem has 14 lines. It is thought to have originated in 13th century Sicily, but Petrarch established the most widely used sonnet form in the 14th century. In order to determine whether a poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, we have to look for two signs. The sonnet is unique among poetic forms in Western literature in that it has retained its appeal for major poets for five centuries. Sonnet : a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme also : a poem in this pattern It can also refer to any pensive or reflective poem that is nostalgic or melancholy, or to a short, pensive musical composition.Įlegy comes from the Greek word elegos, meaning "song of mourning." It's been in use in the English language since the early 1500s. The word sometimes is used to refer to something that resembles a poetic elegy, such as a speech. The broader meaning of elegy has led to other uses as well. In English literature since the 16th century, though, elegies have been poems of lamentation in any meter the poet chooses. Elegiac couplets are alternating lines of verse having the rhythmic pattern of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (as in the word tenderly) repeated first six times and then five times.
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The second meaning of elegy is the one we typically think of today, but in classical literature (and in modern German literature) an elegy can be on any topic, as long as it is in elegiac couplets. Elegy 1 : a poem in elegiac couplets 2 : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead