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Sonnet Redoubled

Type:  

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Pivot Requirement

 
Description: 

There are two variations of the sonnet redoubled. Both are chains of fifteen sonnets based on the first sonnet in the series. The more classical version has each subsequent sonnet end with the first sonnet’s lines in sequence. The variation has each of the following fourteen sonnets begin with a line from the first sonnet.

Also known as Sonnet Redoublé

 
Weaknesses: 

This is not a form for those with short attention spans. At 210 lines, it weighs in as the longest form, so far.

 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

14

 
Line/Poem Length: 

210

 
See Also:  

Form Redoubled, Glose, Iambic Pentameter, Sonnet, Sonnet of Sonnets

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 

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