Wife to Be (Petrarchan Sonnet)
I stroll along a fragrant country lane(a)
With honeysuckle perfume on the air -(b)
And feathered crooner’s warble to revere -(b)
Then cross a golden sea of flowing grain(a)
In empathy – it seems to sense my pain(a)
Of knowing all was done with my affair -(b)
Her empty meaning now the solitaire(b)
She cast away – betrothment all in vain.(a)
But oceans team with many fish to catch(c)
So I must up and hoist another sail(d)
And seek the one that really waits for me,(e)
For soon auspicious breezes will prevail(d)
In guiding forth to find a truer match: (c)
The one to take my hand as wife to be.(e)
2.It is the same rhythm as Shakespeare sonnet iambic pentameter.
It is 10 syllables.
3. I found the metaphor verse 4: “Then I cross a golden sea of flowing grain”. This metaphor means he is walking through a field of wheat.
4. It is a poem is about man or woman who walks across the countryside, through fields, with a broken heart. But he says that he should not be worried because there is more “fish in the sea”, which means that there are other women in the world that he can love. He can have a better future out of you.
5. The Volta starts from “but ocean them with many things to catch”. Before this point, he was heart broken and he though he could never live another. From the starting point of the Volta, then he realised that he could have a better life without her.
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