A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes
abab cdcd efef gg. Each line has 10 syllables.
A Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abba abba,
and a rhyming sestet but with no closing couplet.
The lines are consistent throughout the poem with either 10 or 11 syllables.
A French sonnet is similar to the Italian but uses a rhyming couplet for the first two lines in the sestet and the pattern is abba abba ccdede.
The Spanish sonnet follows the Petrarchan Sonnet form in the octave, but uses the Rima Alterata, a variation of the Sicilian Sonnet, as the sestet. The rhyme scheme is abba abba cdcdcd.
The poet introduces at least one volta (or a jump or shift in direction of the emotions or thought), usually somewhat after the middle of the Sonnet.
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