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A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, usually done in (iambic pentameter) it does have a particular rhyming scheme.
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd
A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet.
Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have
11 syllables per line.
French sonnets follow in this same pattern, but normally have 12 syllables per line.


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  • Purrsanthema
    March 4
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    Eusebius is correct. Sonnets are addictive. You're suffering a great malady.
    At least Saber doesn't edit yours like Blaze edit's mine: many a sonnet's been shredded by his teeth! I've read more, unfortunately, than I've commented on. I'll be more talkative tomorrow! I'm impressed. It's a powerful "addiction!".

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