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Sonnets Flashcards

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Sonnet

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A fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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Divided into eight line octave, rhyming abbaabba followed by six line sestet, rhyming cdecde

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Spenserian Sonnet

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Rhymes abab bcbc cdcd ee

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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Has 14 lines. In iambic pantameter. Rhymes abab cdcd efef gg

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