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.

582 poems on Laurel

  1. Love and the gentle heart are one same thing Dante Alighieri, The New Life · ABBAABBACDECDE
  2. Composed in the Valley Near Dover, on the Day of Landing William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  3. To G. A. W John Keats, Poems (1817) · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  4. Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs John Keats, Poems (1817) · ABBAABBACDECDE
  5. On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour John Keats, Poems (1817) · ABBAABBACDECDE
  6. Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison John Keats, Poems (1817) · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  7. To Genevra Lord Byron, The Giaour, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  8. Poland Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  9. Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  10. To R. B Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  11. To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton II Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  12. Slow Through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  13. Booker T. Washington Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  14. Harriet Beecher Stowe Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  15. Love Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  16. On the Receipt of a Familiar Poem Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  17. Fire Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  18. Dante Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  19. Holidays Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  20. Will Ever the Dear Days Come Back Again? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  21. Sleep Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  22. My Books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  23. The Cross of Snow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  24. Parker Cleaveland, Written on Revisiting Brunswick in the Summer of 1875 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  25. The Tides Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  26. A Summer Day by the Sea Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  27. Mezzo Cammin Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  28. Wapentake, to Alfred Tennyson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  29. Sonnet Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  30. Sonnet III Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  31. Baptism Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  32. To Winter Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  33. Through Agony II Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  34. Tezcotzinco Alan Seeger, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  35. House-Surgeon W. E. Henley, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  36. To W. G. S W. E. Henley, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  37. June James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Farm-Rhymes · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  38. Sonnet: From the Portuguese of Semedo William Cullen Bryant, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  39. The Harlequin of Dreams Sidney Lanier, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  40. Washing Linen After Her Country Fashion Thomas Hood, Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  41. To an Enthusiast Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  42. Far from Fearing, He Prays for Death Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  43. Far from His Beloved, Life Is Miserable by Night as by Day Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  44. He Describes His Sad State Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  45. He Fears That He Is Incapable of Worthily Celebrating Her Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  46. He Inveighs Against Laura's Mirror, Because It Makes Her Forget Him Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  47. He Lives Destitute of All Hope Save That of Rendering Her Immortal Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  48. He No Longer Finds Relief in Solitude Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  49. He Returns the Glove, Bewailing the Effect of Her Beauty Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  50. Her Presence in Visions Is His Only Consolation Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  51. Her Walk, Looks, Words, and Air Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  52. His Heart, Rejected by Laura, Will Perish, Unless She Relent Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  53. His Passion Finds Its Only Consolation in Contemplating Her in Heaven Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  54. Reserve Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  55. The Heavenly Birth of Love and Beauty Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  56. Our Eastern Treasure William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · ABBAABBACDECDE
  57. To Pope Julius II Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  58. Sacred Night Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  59. A Prayer for Aid Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  60. Prototypes Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  61. The Philosophic Flight Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  62. Love's Expostulation Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  63. With a Copy of the Iliad Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  64. The Winds Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  65. November Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  66. To the River Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  67. The Artist and His Work Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  68. Light and Wind Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  69. Celestial and Earthly Love Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  70. At the Foot of the Cross Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  71. The Blood of Christ Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  72. Love Is a Refiner's Fire Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  73. Beauty's Intolerable Splendour Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets · ABBAABBACDECDE
  74. March Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  75. In Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · ABBAABBACDECDE
  76. "I Vex Me Not with Brooding on the Years" Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  77. Chartres II Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verse · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  78. Francine Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay · ABBAABBACDECDE
  79. J.F.B. Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay · ABBAABBACDECDE
  80. Subsidy George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems · ABBAABBACDECDE
  81. The World Is Too Much with Us Mary E. Burt, Poems Every Child Should Know · ABBAABBACDCDCD
  82. To Maude Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay · ABBAABBACDECDE
  83. To My Laundress Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay · ABBAABBACDECDE
  84. To the Wolf at the Door Oliver Herford, The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses · ABBAABBACDCDCD

The first 84 of 582 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.