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- Item: Poem
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- Title: What Gift is This #1
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- Poetic Style: Sonnet, English
- Period: 16th
c. poetic style (See attached)
- Meter: Iambic
Pentameter (See attached)
- Rhyme Scheme:
abab cdcd efef gg (See attached)
- Subject
Matter: A gift freely given. (See attached)
- Construction:
Three Quatrains and a Couplet (See attached)
- Miscellaneous: Petrarchan Conceit (Metaphor - The
gift eclipsed . . .)
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- Language: English, Modern
- The English used today is essentially the same as was
used in Shakespear's time, though there are some minor
differences.
Bibliography:
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- _The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics_, A. Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan Eds.,Princeton
University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1993
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- _The Complete Anachronist #67: Ars Poetica
Societatis_, Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.,
Milpitas, CA, May 1993
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- _Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems_, R. A.
Rebholtz Ed., Penguin Books, N.Y., N.Y., 1978
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- _Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene_, Thomas P. Roche,
Jr. Ed., Penguin Books, N.Y., N.Y., 1987
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- _The Harvard Classics, Vol 40: English Poetry 1:
Chaucer to Gray_, Charles W. Elliot Ed., F. P. Collier
& Son Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1910
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- _Immortal Poems of the English Language_, Oscar
Williams Ed., Washington Square Press, N.Y., N.Y.,
1952
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