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Basic Sonnet Forms

Basic Sonnet Forms. Nelson Miller – Cayuse Press Writers Exchange Board. Basic Sonnet Forms. Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet The basic meter of all sonnets in English is Iambic Pentameter. The Italian Sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds.

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Basic Sonnet Forms

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  1. Basic Sonnet Forms Nelson Miller – Cayuse Press Writers Exchange Board

  2. Basic Sonnet Forms Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet The basic meter of all sonnets in English is Iambic Pentameter. The Italian Sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds.

  3. Basic Sonnet Forms Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet The first 8 lines is called the octave. The octave rhymes: a b b a a b b a. The remaining six lines is called the sestet and can have either two or three rhyming sounds arranged in a variety of ways: cdcdcd or cddcdc or cdecde or cdeced or cdcedc.

  4. Basic Sonnet Forms Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet The volta (turn or change) is where the second juxtaposed idea is introduced in a sonnet This change occurs at Line 9 in an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet.

  5. Basic Sonnet Forms Spenserian Sonnet Invented by Edmund Spenser as an outgrowth of the stanza pattern in ‘The Faerie Queen’. Three distinct four line groups (quatrains) which work together followed by a couplet.

  6. Basic Sonnet Forms Spenserian Sonnet The quatrains form a 12 and 2 pattern which varies from the Italian (Petrarchan) 8 and 6. The volta often appears to be in Line 9 like an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet, and is indicated by “but” or “yet” but usually is more indicated at the couplet.

  7. Basic Sonnet Forms Spenserian Sonnet The quatrains form a 12 and 2 pattern which varies from the Italian (Petrarchan) 8 and 6. The rhyme scheme is: a b a b b c b c c d c d e e The volta often appears to be in Line 9 like an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet, and is indicated by “but” or “yet” but usually is more indicated at the couplet.

  8. Basic Sonnet Forms English or Shakespearean Sonnet Easiest rhyme scheme, calling for pairs of rhyming words rather than groups of 4, but is most flexible in its placement of the volta. Shakespeare often places the ‘turn’ at Line 9. The volta is also often indicated by the final couplet.

  9. Basic Sonnet Forms English or Shakespearean Sonnet Easiest rhyme scheme: three quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet. a b a b c d c d e f e f gg.

  10. Basic Sonnet Forms Things to look for: 14 lines Volta at Line 9 or the couplet Octave/Sestet = Italian Quatrains/Couplet = Spenserian or Shakespearean Progression of ideas in quatrains

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