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Petrarchan Sonnet:
Octave and sestet
abba abba and cdecde
Octave raises a question, the sestet answers
Sonnet 18, Sonnet 28- pg 227
Spenserian Sonnet:
Uses the octave and the sestet but sometimes there is no break between the two
Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc cdcdee
Sonnet 1, Sonnet 35, Sonnet 75
Sir Phillip Sidney
Sonnet 31, Sonnet 39
Shakespearean Sonnets
Fourteen iambic pentameter lines divided into three quatrains and a couplet, with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Often includes a turn.
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