its end before refrain Although we don’t suspect its sundry forms, Adapt and change to grasp with no disdain, Bends, bends to join in other parts of life, To add a glimpse of growth and sight of strife. “Bright Star” is a sonnet written by John Keats prior to the summer of 1819. The basic form of a sonnet requires fifteen lines of iambic pentameter. The two varieties of sonnets we learned about this semester, Italian and Shakespearean, differ in their rhyme scheme. Keats’s piece is an example…
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