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.
By: Amera © www.Allpoetry.com
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Written with a heavy heart as I say goodbye.
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Park with lost memories, now just a park.
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Alone at last, since now you’ve run away,
Ashamed, unaided and in so much pain,30 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 7 6:18 AM 2008
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Aneka started Gr.R today at a Private Christian School.
This poem is my prayer for her! -
Let’s dress up and pretend
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'n Pêrel wat hang in die hemelruim,
wat saam met my deel het in die geheim....
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Stukkies drome wat verlep in die son,
en harsteer wat ek sou keer as ek kon.17 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 6 5:33 AM. In Life
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17 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 12 4:09 AM. In Childhood memories
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