Poetry Sonnet Forms and Terms

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Italian Sonnet

A poetic form with 14 lines, an octave, and a sestet, following specific rhyme schemes. an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

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English Sonnet

A sonnet with 14 lines, three quatrains, and a final rhymed couplet, following a specific rhyme scheme. rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

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Octave

A stanza with eight lines, commonly used in Italian sonnets. (first)

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Sestet

A stanza with six lines, commonly used in various poetic forms including Italian sonnets. (second)

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Quatrain

A stanza with four lines, often with various rhyme schemes, commonly used in many types of poetry including sonnets.

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Couplet

Two lines of verse that usually rhyme and have the same meter, often forming a complete thought or expressing a complete idea.

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Meter

The rhythmic structure of a verse in a poem, determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Metrical Foot

A unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that form the basic building blocks of poetic rhythm.

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Iamb

A metrical foot with two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed, commonly used in English poetry.

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Iambic Pentameter

A metrical line of verse with five iambs, or ten syllables, with the stress falling on every second syllable, commonly used in English poetry including Shakespearean sonnets and blank verse.

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