The Petrarchan Sonnet And The Shakespearean Sonnet
The Petrarchan sonnet; that is your name……
The Petrarchan sonnet; that is your name……
Villanelle your nineteen-line form I see…..
The silver horses gallop along the sky……
All the world’s a stage and this is your clown……
Substitution….
The apprehension of one thing by another…..
Verses when meter has been set aside….
So melodious…..
A long narrative poem…..
A concluding stanza….
You are a run-on line, in which……
French for “unknotting”……
The echo of inner or end…..
Purification…..
A short pause in a metrical line…..
“Bad-sounding”……..
You’re unrhymed iambic pentameter……
The one called the antistrophe…..
The repetition…..
A meaningful reference…..