Spenserian Sonnet
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Simple,
Pivot Requirement | | |
| Description: | | This sonnet is arranged as three quatrains and a couplet
using rhyme to help interlink. There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that usually occurs in the sonnet at the ninth line.
It was developed by Edmund Spenser. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Edmund Spenser | | |
| Origin: | | English | | |
| Schematic: | | The rhyme scheme is: abab bcbc cdcd ee. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 14 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 14 | | |
| See Also: | | Petrarchan Sonnet, Shakespearean Sonnet, Sonnet, Spenserian Stanza, Stretched Sonnet | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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