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Sonnets

Sonnets. What Is a Sonnet?. A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes. The two most common types of sonnets are Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnets Shakespearean, or English, sonnets

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Shakespearean Sonnets

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The Sonnet

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Whoso List to Hunt

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AP Lit

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The History of the Form Part One: Petrarchan Sonnets

The History of the Form Part One: Petrarchan Sonnets. Francesco Petrarcha 1304-1374. Born in Tuscany, Italy ? wrote in Italian (i.e. the vernacular) This made his writing accessible to all Most famous work: Canzoniere , a sequence of 366 poems, 317 of which are sonnets

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Sonnets

Sonnets. A sonnet is a 14 lyric poem with a single theme. Each line in a sonnet is usually in iambic pentameter (five groups of two syllables, each with the accent on the second syllable). There are three types of sonnets: Petrarchan , Spencerian , and Shakespearian (English). .

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