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Quatorzain - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The distinction was long neglected, because the English poets of the 16th century had failed to apprehend the true form of the sonnet, and called Petrarch's and other Italian poets' sonnets quatorzains, and their own incorrect quatorzains sonnets. |
 | | They consist of three quatrains of alternate rhyme, not repeated in the successive quatrains, and the whole closes with a couplet. |
 | | In his most mature period, however, Keats returned to the quatorzain, perhaps in emulation with Shakespeare; and some of his examples, such as "When I have fears," "Standing aloof in giant ignorance," and "Bright Star," are the most beautiful in modern literature. |
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