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Pushkin Sonnet

Type:  

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic, Simple, Pivot Requirement

 
Description: 

A 14-line Sonnet with rhyme scheme "ababccddeffegg". It can be read either as an Italian form (two quatrains plus two tercets) or as an English form (three quatrains plus a closing couplet). Iambic pentameter would be a good bet for meter.

 
Schematic: 
Rhyme: abab ccdd eff egg
or abab ccdd effe gg

Meter: xX  xX  xX  xX  xX

Pivot: Between lines 8 and 9
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

14

 
Line/Poem Length: 

14

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 
See Also:  

Petrarchan Sonnet, Shakespearean Sonnet, Sonnet

 

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