"Sonnet on the Great Suffering of Jesus Christ" (in Polish ) is a poem by the 17th-century Polish poet Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski., "Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski" (in Polish). The poem is the last in the sequence The Poems of Lent (in Polish ).Michael J. Mikoś, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1641 – 1702).
Form The poem is written in the manner of Italian or Petrarchan sonnet,Sonnet at Encyclopædia Britannica. rhyming abba abba cdc dcd.Jadwiga Miszalska, Sonet w Polsce od XVI do początków XIX wieku a przekłady z języka włoskiego (in Polish). It is composed in typical 11-syllable Polish hendecasyllable lines having half-lines of 5 and 6 syllables, separated by a caesura:
o o o S s || o o o o S s o=any syllable; S=stressed syllable; s=unstressed syllable
Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Sonet na całą Mękę Pańską at Staropolska.pl.
An interesting feature of the poem is the second quatrain's two extended enumerations using 1-syllable wordsLucylla Pszczołowska, Wiersz polski. Zarys historyczny, Wrocław, 1997, p. 113 (in Polish). that are very rare in the Polish language. A similar poetic deviceSee translator's notes by Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska.plWiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków 2003, p. 28 (in Polish). (Daniel Naborowski, Krótkość żywota at Staropolska.pl.) was used earlier by another Polish baroque poet, Daniel Naborowski in the poem "The Brevity of Life" (in Polish ).See translation by Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska.pl.
Translation The poem has been translated into English by Michael J. Mikoś.Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Sonnet on the Great Suffering of Jesus Christ, translated by Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska.pl.
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