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List: Sicilian Sonnet

Very much like an Italian Sonnet but, a Sicilian, Giacomo d'Arezzo, changed the
rhyme scheme of the octave to abbaabba.
With the rhyme scheme of the Sicilian sestet
efefef he formed what is now called the
Sicilian sonnet by many critics.

There are disagreements as to the rhyme
of the octave in the Sicilian sonnet
depending upon whether the authority
chooses the older form or one of the newer.
Since the Sicilian sonnet is a transitional
form from the Italian to the Petrarchan,

I think the abbacddc efefef rhyme scheme
with the iambic pentameter line the better
choice for this form.

The sonnet is a love poem: love of woman,
love of friend, love of country, love of
oneself, love of something, but love.
It has a format of: Octave, line break, sestet.

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