Sonnet
A sonnet...
-has 14 lines
-is written in rhymed iambic pentameter
Types of sonnets (most common)
-Italian sonnet
-has an eight line stanza (octave) and a six line stanza (sestet)
-has a mood change at the beginning of the last six lines (called a volta)
-follows the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD (or CDECDE)
-Shakespearean sonnet (Elizabethan/English sonnet)
-has three stanzas with four lines each (quatrains) and one stanza with two lines (couplet)
-has a mood change at the beginning of the last two lines
-follows the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
-has 14 lines
-is written in rhymed iambic pentameter
Types of sonnets (most common)
-Italian sonnet
-has an eight line stanza (octave) and a six line stanza (sestet)
-has a mood change at the beginning of the last six lines (called a volta)
-follows the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD (or CDECDE)
-Shakespearean sonnet (Elizabethan/English sonnet)
-has three stanzas with four lines each (quatrains) and one stanza with two lines (couplet)
-has a mood change at the beginning of the last two lines
-follows the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG