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petrarchan
biographical name(Pe-trarch)
1304—1374 Italian Francesco Petrarca Italian poet
petrarchan
noun(Pe-trarch)
italian sonnet
petrarchan
noun(Pe-trarch)
a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd) —called also Petrarchan sonnet

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