I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight I love thee to the depth and breadth and height How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Petrarchan example: "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date Shakespearean example: "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare Similar forms in other cultures: Onegin stanza / oneginskaya strofa (Russian), Quatorzain (French, archaic). Meter: Iambic pentameter (traditionally). The volta arrives between the eighth and ninth lines.Second stanza: six lines (a sestet) answering that question.First stanza: eight lines (an octave) asking a question or posing an argument.Structure: Fourteen lines, split into two stanzas, in iambic pentameter (traditionally). It was Shakespeare's favored meter, and, spoiler alert, iambic pentameter crops up in a lot of other poetic forms! What makes a Petrarchan sonnet? Iambic pentameter consists of five iambic ‘feet’ - stressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables - sounding something like:
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