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Sonnet of Sonnets

Type:  

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

 
Description: 

The first sonnet serves as a texte for the other fourteen, which link together with the first and last line of the sonnet in order. In other words, there is linking where the last line of the second sonnet is not only the second line of the first sonnet, but also the first line of the third.

 
Attributed to: 

Bob Newman

 
Origin: 

England

 
Schematic: 
An abbreviated presentation of a schematic for
a Shakespearean sonnet of sonnets:

A1B1A2B2 C1D1C2C2 E1F1E2F2 G1G2
A1hah ijij klkl aA2
A2mam nono pqpq bB1
...
G1vgv wxwx yzyz gG2
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

14

 
Line/Poem Length: 

210

 
Reference: 

Reference Link

 
See Also:  

Corona of Sonnets, Iambic Pentameter, Sonnet, Sonnet Redoubled, Swinburne's Double Sestina

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 
 
 

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