| Front | Whoso List to Hunt - Thomas Wyatt Form and meter x3 |
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| Back | •Petrarchan sonnet with an iambic pentameter, known for resembling ordinary speech, imitating and elevating the sounds of everyday conversation in his personal poem •except this IP is broken in line 7: Fainting I follow. I leave off, therefore. This is known as a trochee as first syllable 'faint' is emphasises, effectively stressing the agony of the fall •Positioning of verb at start of run-on line highlights verb, not subject |
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