love sonnets
Fourteen-line devotions
Love sonnets are fourteen-line poems exploring romantic love, traditionally following strict rhyme schemes and meter.
The form reached its peak with Petrarch's idealized longing and Shakespeare's more complex treatments of desire, jealousy, and devotion.
He wrote her love sonnets but never worked up the courage to share them.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- poetic formVerse's structural template
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
- voltaRepeated section's alternate ending
- rhyming coupletTwo lines sharing end-sounds
William Shakespeare · fair youth · Pablo Neruda · longing · John Donne · iambic pentameter · Petrarch · Dante Alighieri · blazon · devotion · sestet · quatrain · passion · couplet · verses · Elizabethan era · ardor · Browning
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