Bowlesian Sonnet
Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other
Requirement, Isosyllabic, Simple | |
Description: | | An English-style sonnet in that it is three quatrains and a
heroic couplet, but the quatrains are Italian rather than Sicilian in their rhyme schemes. Pivot somewhere between the ninth and thirteenth
line. | |
Attributed to: | | Lisle Bowles | |
Origin: | | England | |
Schematic: | | Rhyme: abba cddc effe gg
Pivot: 9-13 | |
Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 14 | |
Line/Poem Length: | | 14 | |
See Also: | | Envelope Sonnet, Envelope Stanza, Italian Quatrain, Petrarchan Sonnet, Shakespearean Sonnet, Sonnet | |
Status: | | Incomplete | |
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