This form was used in Longfellow's translation of the Comedia, and, though the customary division between the proposition and resolution was ignored, it is the form of "On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three" and "
This form was used in Longfellow's translation of the Comedia, and, though the customary division between the proposition and resolution was ignored, it is the form of "On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three" and "When I Consider How My Light is Spent." Its rules were codified by Guittone of Arezzo, and it was popularized in England by the Earl of Surrey and Thomas Wyatt. It starts new thoughts on the fifth and twelfth lines and resolves itself in a sestet, unlike its later counterpart, which requires a concluding couplet. For ten points, identify this specific type of fourteen-line poem named for the admirer of Laura or his country of origin.
This form was used in Longfellow's translation of the Comedia, and, though the customary division between the proposition and resolution was ignored, it is the form of "On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three" and "
Petrarchan sonnet [accept Italian sonnet; prompt on “sonnet”]