{"title":"Herbert's Sonnets","authors":"J. Ottenhoff","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1979.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The multifaceted architecture of George Herbert's The Temple is built in part upon fascinating and functional experiments with rhymepatterns and stanza forms. Rarely using the same verse form more than once in 77»· Temple, Herbert, like Donne, punctuates his verse with a proliferation of varying line lengths and rhyme patterns. ' Thus, the fifteen sonnets scattered through Th* Templo would represent, on the surface, a certain conservatism, a reversion to a well-worn and highly conventionalized form. But Herbert's sonnets show great vitality and wide variety; Herbert the sonneteer is hardly conventional, and his sonnets show a balanced exploitation of the freedoms of a strict verse form just as they admirably express the freedom he found in religious devotion.","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"George Herbert Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1979.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The multifaceted architecture of George Herbert's The Temple is built in part upon fascinating and functional experiments with rhymepatterns and stanza forms. Rarely using the same verse form more than once in 77»· Temple, Herbert, like Donne, punctuates his verse with a proliferation of varying line lengths and rhyme patterns. ' Thus, the fifteen sonnets scattered through Th* Templo would represent, on the surface, a certain conservatism, a reversion to a well-worn and highly conventionalized form. But Herbert's sonnets show great vitality and wide variety; Herbert the sonneteer is hardly conventional, and his sonnets show a balanced exploitation of the freedoms of a strict verse form just as they admirably express the freedom he found in religious devotion.