Let me count the ways.
"Elegaic" works in this form were written by Charlotte Smith, reviving them in England. One of these begins "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies." Milton wrote six ones in Italian, as well as English ones like "When I (*) consider how my light is spent." This form makes up Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, as well as a poem asking "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For 10 points, name this poetic form deriving "from the Portuguese" in a work by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which has fourteen lines.
"Elegaic" works in this form were written by Charlotte Smith, reviving them in England.
sonnets