Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Italian sonnets (the Petrarchan sonnet)

Fourteen lines in an octave rhyming ABBAABBA and a sestet on two or three new rhymes: the form of Petrarch, Milton's sonnets and Wordsworth's. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.

557 poems on Laurel

  1. Composed in the Valley Near Dover, on the Day of Landing William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, Volume II · ABBAABBACDECDE
  2. To G. A. W John Keats, Poems (1817) · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  3. Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  4. To R. B Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  5. To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton II Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  6. Slow Through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  7. Booker T. Washington Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  8. Harriet Beecher Stowe Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  9. Love Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  10. On the Receipt of a Familiar Poem Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  11. Fire Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  12. Dante Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  13. Holidays Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  14. Will Ever the Dear Days Come Back Again? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  15. Sleep Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  16. My Books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  17. The Cross of Snow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  18. Written on Revisiting Brunswick in the Summer of 1875 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  19. The Tides Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  20. A Summer Day by the Sea Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  21. Mezzo Cammin Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  22. To Alfred Tennyson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · ABBAABBACDECDE
  23. Baptism Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  24. To Winter Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  25. Through Agony II Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  26. Tezcotzinco Alan Seeger, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  27. House-Surgeon W. E. Henley, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  28. To W. G. S W. E. Henley, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  29. In Answer to a Request Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed · ABBAABBACDECDE
  30. June James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Farm-Rhymes · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  31. From the Portuguese of Semedo William Cullen Bryant, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  32. The Harlequin of Dreams Sidney Lanier, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  33. Washing Linen After Her Country Fashion Thomas Hood, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  34. Dacre Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  35. Far from Fearing, He Prays for Death Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  36. Far from His Beloved, Life Is Miserable by Night as by Day Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  37. He Describes His Sad State Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  38. He Fears That He Is Incapable of Worthily Celebrating Her Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  39. He Inveighs Against Laura's Mirror, Because It Makes Her Forget Him Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  40. He Lives Destitute of All Hope Save That of Rendering Her Immortal Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  41. He No Longer Finds Relief in Solitude Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  42. He Returns the Glove, Bewailing the Effect of Her Beauty Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  43. Her Presence in Visions Is His Only Consolation Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  44. Her Walk, Looks, Words, and Air Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  45. His Heart, Rejected by Laura, Will Perish, Unless She Relent Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  46. Reserve Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  47. The Heavenly Birth of Love and Beauty Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  48. Our Eastern Treasure William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · ABBAABBACDECDE
  49. To Pope Julius II Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  50. Sacred Night Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  51. A Prayer for Aid Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  52. Prototypes Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  53. The Philosophic Flight Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  54. Love's Expostulation Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  55. With a Copy of the Iliad Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  56. The Winds Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  57. November Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  58. To the River Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  59. God Made and God Rules Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  60. The Artist and His Work Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  61. Light and Wind Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  62. Celestial and Earthly Love Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  63. At the Foot of the Cross Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  64. The Millennium Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  65. Love Is a Refiner's Fire Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  66. March Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  67. In Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  68. "I Vex Me Not with Brooding on the Years" Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE

The first 68 of 557 poems, best-known poets first. The rest are reachable through their poets.

Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.