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History of the Sonnet and History of Shakespeare

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English

 

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February 24, 2015

 

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The Italian sonnet that Petrarch used was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian School under Frederick II. The sonnet was introduced into England by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century. However, it was his contemporary, the Earl of Surrey who gave the poems the rhyme scheme, meter, and division into quatrains that now characterizes the English sonnet...
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In the Romance languages, hendecasyllable and Alexandrines are the most widely used meters. They also have set rhyme schemes; for example, English (Shakespearean) sonnets have the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg, Italian (Petrarchan) sonnets have the rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde or abbaabba cdcdcd, and Spenser wrote in abab bcbc cdcd ee rhyme scheme...
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