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Rhyme scheme, meter, the octave-sestet turn and figures of speech in Thomas Wyatt's English sonnets after Petrarch.
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Wyatt, "Whoso list to hunt": "Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, / But as for me, helas, I may no more. / The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, / I am of them that farthest cometh behind." Which letters name this rhyme scheme?
Wyatt's sonnet "I find no peace" begins: "I find no peace, and all my war is done." How many stressed syllables does that line carry?
Wyatt's line "I find no peace, and all my war is done" runs as five unstressed-stressed pairs. What is that meter called?
Wyatt's sonnets after Petrarch have fourteen lines that fall into two unequal parts. What is the first part, the group of eight lines, called?
Lines 9 to 12 of "Whoso list to hunt" end: doubt, vain, plain, about. The octave has already used the letters A and B. Which letters name the rhyme of these four lines?
Surrey's English version of the same Petrarch sonnet Wyatt translated ends: "Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove: / Sweet is the death that taketh end by love." What is this rhyming two-line ending called?
Petrarch's sestets commonly rhyme CDECDE. The sestet of Wyatt's "Whoso list to hunt" rhymes CDDC EE. Which feature of Wyatt's scheme is NOT found in CDECDE?
Wyatt, "My galley": "My galley charged with forgetfulness / Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass / 'Tween rock and rock; and eke mine enemy, alas, / That is my lord, steereth with cruelness." Name the rhyme scheme.
In "My galley" Wyatt calls himself a ship the whole way through: the oars are his thoughts, the sail is torn by sighs, the guiding stars are hidden. Which figure of speech works like that?
Wyatt's sea comparison is sustained but compact. Which statement describes an epic simile, the longer form that epic poetry uses?
Wyatt, "I find no peace": "I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice. / I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise". Which figure of speech is "freeze like ice"?
Wyatt, "I find no peace": "I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice. / I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise". What do the paired opposites show about the speaker?
Wyatt, "The long love that in my thought doth harbour": "And in mine hert doth keep his residence, / Into my face presseth with bold pretence / And therein campeth, spreading his banner." Which figure is used for love?
In "The long love" Wyatt has love keep a residence in the heart, press into the face and camp there spreading his banner. What does that soldier image carry?
"Whoso list to hunt" closes: "Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame." The Latin means touch me not. What do the lines say about the hind?
Wyatt ends the octave of "Whoso list to hunt" with: "Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind." What does this image say about the speaker's pursuit?
In the sonnet Wyatt took from Petrarch, the poem's thought turns from the problem to the response. Where does that turn fall?
Surrey's version opens: "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, / And built his seat within my captive breast, / Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought, / Oft in my face he doth his banner rest." Name the rhyme scheme.
The octave of Wyatt's "My galley" rhymes ABBA ABBA. How many different rhyme sounds do those eight lines use?
Wyatt, "My galley": "Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass / 'Tween rock and rock". What does repeating the word rock do here?
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