Etymology
Origin of Petrarchan
Example Sentences
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It’s also true that, in order to portray the kinds of psychic shifts required by the Petrarchan volta, Lock would have had to allow herself the kind of invention that was forbidden to women.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019
Post-debate analysis will reveal that all of her answers will have been composed as perfect Petrarchan sonnets.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017
A favorite scholarly idea is that these questions mistake Shakespeare’s real purpose, which was to invent a group of characters in order to play with Petrarchan conventions.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015
This is one of the last of his sonnets written in the Petrarchan form as followed by Milton and Wordsworth, and from henceforth he follows the Shakespearean form almost exclusively.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
Wyatt, it should be observed, generally departs from the Petrarchan rime-scheme, on the whole unfortunately, by substituting a third quatrain for the first four lines of the sestet.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
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