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

A sonnet is a fourteen line poem that has a pivot. The Shakespearean or English sonnet is not traditionally broken into the octave and the sestet as strongly as the Petrarchan version. There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that occurs in the Shakespearean sonnet somewhere between the eighth and thirteenth line.

Henrry Howard, Earl of Surrey

English

Rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg.
Meter: xX xX xX xX xX

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14

• Mountain Lakes
• Paragonitis (Scroll Down)
• The Gate (Scroll Down)
• Together (Double)
• Yorick Speaks

Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Bowlesian Sonnet, Chained Sonnet, Heroic Couplets, Heroic Sonnet, Iambic Pentameter, Petrarchan Sonnet, Pushkin Sonnet, Reverse English Sonnet, Sicilian Quatrain, Sonnet, Spenserian Sonnet, Stretched Sonnet

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