PETRARCH FELL IN LOVE
WITH MARRIED WOMEN
A very silly sonnette
By Izzy Ess
of Iambic-ness
If Petrarch didn’t fall in love with married
Women, which had left him, and his yearnings,
Unrequited, we would not have had
THE SONNETTE, eh? He
chose a fourteen line
New formatte, rhyming pattern optional,
Except for rhyming couplet at the end.
His rhythm was the iamb, five each line,
There for an iambic pentametre.
Oh, where would Willie Shakespeare be, if he
Did not have Petrarch’s Sonnette? How could Liz
B. Browning “Count the Ways,”
without a sonnette:
“How do I love you? Let me count the ways.”
She kept her man, M. Barrett. Shakespeare bed
Ms. Rosaleine, and Queen
Elizabeth.
THE END
© izzy sommers, md, retired
Welland, Canada
July 4, 2013
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