Post by Alan on Apr 2, 2007 16:36:59 GMT
Sonnet The English (Shakespearean) sonnet is so different from the Italian (though it grew from that form) as to permit of a separate classification. Instead of the octave and sestet divisions, this sonnet characteristically embodies four divisions: three quatrains (each with a rhyme-scheme of its own) and a rhymed couplet. Thus the typical rhyme-scheme for the English sonnet is
abab cdcd efef gg.
abab cdcd efef gg.
