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Sonnets

• 14 lines
• iambic pentameter (almost always)
• popular during Renaissance

- 2 main types:

1. Italian Petrarchan

• contains a problem/ situation/question in an 8 octave. (abbaabba)
• the resolution/answer in in a 6 sestet (cdecde)

2. English/Shakespearean

• 3 quatrains (meaning 4), ending with 1 couplet.
• 1 quatrain (abab)
• 2nd 8 (cdcd)
• 3rd 8 (efef)
• heroic couplet (resolutions) gg

heroic couplet. 2 lines that rhyme.

*sonnets almost always rhyme

example pg. 248 in poetry book