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A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with an intricate and fixed rhyme scheme. In English, moreover, sonnets are written in a prevailing meter consisting of ten syllables per line (called pentameter), arranged into five poetic feet, each of which consists of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (called an iamb).
Leland Ryken • The Devotional Poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Milton
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” is a famous line from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy. This line appears at the entrance to Hell in the first part of the poem, Inferno.
The phrase serves as a warning to those who enter Hell, signalling that there is no hope for redemption or salvation once they
A cento, from the Latin word for "patchwork," is a poetic form composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. This means none of the writing is yours; the lines belong to others, and your work as the writer is selecting the necessary pieces, then assembling the fragments to make a new whole. In my experience, juxtaposing lines from different
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An Italian sonnet (also called Petrarchan sonnet, after the Italian poet Petrarch, who popularized it) consists of two units. The first eight lines have the fixed rhyme scheme of abba abba. This unit is called an octave and consists of such things as stating a doubt, asking a question, or delineating a problem—establishing something unsettling that
... See moreLeland Ryken • The Devotional Poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Milton
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