The Sonnet

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The Sonnet
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• 14 lines of iambic pentameter verse
• Petrarchan sonnet
• One octave made up of two quatrains
• Rhyme is usually abba abba
• One sestet
• Rhyme is usually some version of cde

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• 14 lines of iambic pentameter verse
• Shakespearean or Elizabethan Sonnet
• Three quatrains
• Rhyme is usually abab cdcd efef
• One couplet

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