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Sonnets

Sonnets. Major literary form All have 14 lines and follow a rhyme scheme Sonnet Cycles: Series of sonnets that explore a person or theme, usually love. Designed to be read as a series, but all poems should stand alone. Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets • Major literary form • All have 14 lines and follow a rhyme scheme • Sonnet Cycles: Series of sonnets that explore a person or theme, usually love. • Designed to be read as a series, but all poems should stand alone.

  2. Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet • Named after Petrarch (1304-1374), an Italian Poet • Divided in octave (eight lines) and sextet (six lines) • Octave poses a problem, and sextet offers a solution to that problem. • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd • Another rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde

  3. English (Shakespearean) Sonnet • Used by many writers throughout the English Renaissance (ie. Shakespeare, Sidney). • Divided into three quatrains (four lines) and a final couplet (two lines) • Usually written in iambic pentameter, though not always, and not consistently • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg

  4. Spenserian Sonnet • Used by Edmund Spencer. • Variation of English Sonnet • Rhyme Scheme: ababbcbccdcdee

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