![]() He just sticks a rhyme in the middle of the verse: very strange. For example, line 13 has a word near the end, "swell’st," that rhymes with "dwell" and "well" from the previous two lines. If you look closer, there’s even more weird stuff going on at the end. But, "Death, be not proud" finishes slightly differently. The Petrarchan sonnet has fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme that goes ABBAABBA and then, most frequently, CDCDCD. Shakespeare, for example, uses a different form of the sonnet, which we call "Shakespearean" for that reason. But, just as with rock 'n' roll, new poets keep fiddling with the sonnet form, tweaking it slightly to fit their needs. ![]() ![]() This 14th century Italian poet isn’t the first person to write sonnets, but he makes the form popular all across Europe, including England. You can thank Petrarch for all the sonnets you have to read in school.
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