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The sarabande

The sarabande was a dance of Persian origin introduced into Spain in the 16th century.
The poem follows the movements of the dance with its change of stanza form
to comply with the measures of the music. As a “sonnet” it has:

14 lines
Four stanzas

Stanza 1 a tercet, rhyme axa or aaa

Stanza 2 a quatrain, any quatrain form or rhyme
The stanza forms may be mixed
English: abab or abcb
Italian: baab
Spanish: bcbc
French: bbcc

Stanza 3 a tercet, same tercet form as stanza 1
a sonnet with a French tercet requires
line 2 of both tercets to rhyme.

Stanza 4 a quatrain, any quatrain form and
rhyme
Any metrical foot
Any metrical line
Some authorities insist on eight syllables
but this is not cut and dried
Rhyme scheme: depends on the form chosen.

The volta the first line of the second tercet.

Reference: http://allpoetry.com/column/show/2336978

and

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/treten.html