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
The difference will be still more clearly manifest if we turn from a comparison of rhyme-structure to the ordering of the thought in the Petrarchan sonnet.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
An excellent example of the Petrarchan sonnet of this exact type is Austin Dobson's "Don Quixote."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
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