Petrarchan poems are divided into two sections so the poet can ask questions and reach an answer.Thematically, theoctave, or first eight lines, often makes a proposition, which asks a question or describes a problem. Then thesestet, or final six lines, proposes a resolution or solution. It’...
Later poems II (after 1536) 8 Treizaine If in the world there be more woe Than I have in my heart, Where so it is, it doth come fro, And in my breast there doth it grow, 4 For to increase my smart. Alas I am receipt of every care, And of my life each sorrow claims his ...