Why did Petrarch call his collection of poems Scattered Rhymes?
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Why did Petrarch call his collection of poems Scattered Rhymes?
The Name of Petrarch's Scattered Rhymes:
Petrarch is one of the inventors of the European love poem called the sonnet, for which he developed the rhyme scheme that was later named after him. The first writers of sonnets in England, Henry Howard and Thomas Wyatt, translated Petrarch's poems and modeled their own after his; and while Shakespeare was also influenced by him, he created a new rhyme scheme for his own sonnets.
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View this answerThe name Rime Sparse, which was sometimes applied to the work more generally known as Il Canzoniere ("the songbook"), refers to the fact...
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Chapter 5 / Lesson 7Study Petrarchan sonnets and discover how they differ from other sonnet forms. Learn to identify Petrarchan sonnet rhyme schemes and Italian sonnet structure. See Petrarchan sonnet examples.