An stanza featuring an “A, B, B, A, A, B, B, A” rhyme scheme typically opens the Italian variant of this poetic form. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poetic form that includes a poem beginning “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines,” often divided into an octave and a sestet.
ANSWER: sonnets [accept Petrarchan sonnets or Italian sonnets]
[10h] A sonnet titled for this figure by the author of “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” describes how “the shaft into his vision shone / Of light anatomized!” after demanding to let “all who prate of Beauty hold their peace.”
ANSWER: Euclid [accept “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare”]
[10m] The line “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” opens a sonnet by this poet of Four Sonnets and “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” In another poem, this poet wrote “Infinity / Pressed down upon the finite Me!”
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay (The unnamed poem is “Renascence.”)
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