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SONNET
- a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length
- The Italian sonnet
- comprises an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed
cdecde or cdcdcd
- The Italian pattern has remained the most widely used in English and other languages.
- Petrarchan sonnet
- 14th century
- The English sonnet
- Shakespearean sonnet
- comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg
- variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet
- links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee
- 16th century
- Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591), Spenser's Amoretti (1595), and Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
- Pentameter
- A metrical verse line having five main stresses, traditionally described as a line of five 'feet.
- Rhyme scheme
- The pattern in which the rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem or stanza