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A 5 page essay that analyzes sixteenth century Edmund Spencer's "Sonnet 75" from Amoretti. The writer does a line by line interpretation that also considers the poetic devices utilized by this master of poetry. No additional sources cited.
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it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. "Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay, A mortall thing so to immortalize,
For I my selve shall lyke to t his decay, And eek my name bee typed out lykewize." To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame: My
verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens wryte your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, Our love shall live, and later
life renew (Spencer 661). In analyzing Edmund Spencers "Sonnet 75" from his collection Amoretti, it is, first of all, appropriate to examine this particular form of poetry. A
"sonnet" is a short poem (the word comes from the Italian for "little song") and consists of only fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Different types of sonnets are differentiated by
their rhyme scheme. Petrachan, or Italian, sonnets were pioneered by the Italian poet Petrarch and generally consist of an octet (a group of eight lines), followed by a sextet, a
group of six, in one of the following rhyme schemes: abbaabba cde cde or abbaabba cc dd ee or abbaabba cdcd ee. Spencers work in sonnet form is highly
original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of the more complicated rhyming schemes for
sonnets because the rhyme is interlocking - abab bcbc cdcd ee. In other words, the last word rhymed in the first set of lines also rhymes with the first line
of the next set of lines. In "Sonnet 75," this form is evident. The last word of the first line rhymes with the last word of the third line, but
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