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the word sonnet means
little song (from the Italian Sonetto)
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A sonnet is
14 lines
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is typically written in
iambic and pentameter
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sonnet was popularized by the Italian
Petrarch
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Petrarch created the sonnet form
Italian and Petrachian
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Petrarch's sonnet form has rhyme scheme of
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE consisting of an octave and a sestet
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sonnet form was bought to England by
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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the form was gradually refined into a form that became known as
the English or Shakespearean
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the Shakespearean sonnet has a rhyme scheme of
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG which consist of 3 quatrains and a cuplet
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A poem has a "rhyme scheme" when there is an ordered pattern of rhymes at the \____.
end of each line
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"Iambic" refers to use of "iambs" which means a pattern of
unstressed (U) / stressed (/) for each "foot"
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a "foot" in a line of metered poetry consists of
2 syllables
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a pentameter line has
10 syllables
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a poem that does not have metrical pattern is called
free verse
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to scan a line is called
scansion
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a volta is a
shift/turn