Petrarch's and Shakespeare's Sonnets

What I loved most about these sonnets was the rythm. I feel like when reading these you emerse yourself more and are able to find a rythm within you that makes you want to continue to read them. This style of literature was a nice break from what we have read so far in this sourse. In the poem, Soleasi Nel Mio Cor, poem he explains how he loves this woman who is described as a goddess. But he is mortal or bound to die. That his love is not welcomed, and the cries of sorrow, he can only hear and how his desire for her is no use, he may have hope but will die one day. So again he loves someone who can’t love him back, also how he is depressed because of that. Not only that but maybe even that he is not worthy of her. The way he describes her as perfect, and him unworthy of her love. In the poem, Gli Occhi Di Ch' Io Parlai, The person or speaker of the poem is Francesco Peterarch, he is writing to the woman he fell in love with. The first stanza Francesco is how his love grew for her, and with her physical features. How he would day dream about her, tricking himself that she could love him back. He did 11 syllables in each line and that's why he used words like: ‘neath - beneath, erewhile- meanwhile. That way they could fit in the number of syllables. Overall these poems were somewhat hard to understand but the rythm made it easy to read.