![]() ![]() Unlike a classic Italian sonnet, "When I consider how my light is spent" does not divide cleanly into eight lines and six lines, however. So, you can see that lines 1, 4, 5, and 8 all rhyme with each other. ![]() The rhyme scheme of this sonnet is ABBAABBAC CDECDE. The Italian sonnet form was made popular by the Italian poet Petrarch, who was to the literary Renaissance what The Temptations were to Motown. Shakespeare, on the other hand, used a sonnet form that ended with a rhyming two-line couplet. This form is divided up into two sections, one with eight lines and one with six. The heart of the Roman Empire was located in what is now modern-day Italy, and the sonnet was invented in Italy, so it was not a surprise that Milton would favor the original Italian form of the sonnet. Milton loved the classics, and in the 17th century, "classic" meant anything associated with Ancient Greece or Rome. Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet in Iambic Pentameter ![]()
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