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SONNET
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Mind Map on SONNET, created by Karen Espinosa on 05/10/2014.
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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
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