Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Published between 1812 and 1818, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem by the English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands.

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Narrative poem - George Gordon, Lord Byron

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(Note: The term childe was a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood.)

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Medieval - Knighthood

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It has four cantos written in Spenserian stanzas, which consist of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a one alexandrine (a twelve syllable iambic line), and rhyme pattern ABABBCBCC.

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