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    The document provides an overview of sonnets, including their definition, structure, and major types. A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. There are six major types of sonnets: Italian, Shakespearean, Spenserian, Miltonic, Terza Rima, and Curtal. The document provides an example of an Italian Petrarchan sonnet along with its rhyme scheme and defines the Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme as abab-cdcd-efef-gg.

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    The document provides an overview of sonnets, including their definition, structure, and major types. A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. There are six major types of sonnets: Italian, Shakespearean, Spenserian, Miltonic, Terza Rima, and Curtal. The document provides an example of an Italian Petrarchan sonnet along with its rhyme scheme and defines the Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme as abab-cdcd-efef-gg.

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    The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word “sonetto,” which means a “little song” or small lyric.

    In poetry, a sonnet has 14 lines, and is


    written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme, and a volta, or a specific turn.
    Generally, sonnets are divided into different groups based on the rhyme scheme they follow. The rhymes of a sonnet are arranged according to
    a certain rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme in English is usually abab–cdcd–efef–gg, and in Italian abba–abba–cde–cde
    Types of Sonnet
    Sonnets can be categorized into six major types:

    1. Italian Sonnet

    2. Shakespearean Sonnet

    3. Spenserian Sonnet

    4. Miltonic Sonnet

    5. Terza Rima Sonnet

    6. Curtal Sonnet
    Example #1: Visions (By Francesco Petrarch)
    Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
    Italian or Petrarchan sonnet was introduced by 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch.

    “Being one day at my window all alone,


    So manie strange things happened me to see,
    As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
    At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
    So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
    Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
    Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
    With deadly force so in their cruell race
    They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,
    That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
    Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
    Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
    Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
    Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.”
    The rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet features the first eight lines, called an octet, which rhymes as abba–abba–cdc–dcd. The remaining six
    lines are called a sestet, and might have a range of rhyme schemes.
    Shakespearean Sonnet
    A Shakespearean sonnet is generally written in iambic pentameter, in which there are 10 syllables in each line. The rhythm of the lines must be
    as below:

    “From fairest creatures we desire increase,


    That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.
    But as the riper should by time decease,
    His tender heir might bear his memory:
    But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
    Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
    Making a famine where abundance lies,
    Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
    Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
    And only herald to the gaudy spring,
    Within thine own bud buriest thy content
    And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.
    Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
    To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee…”
    The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearian sonnet is abab–cdcd–efef–gg, which is difficult to follow. Hence, only Shakespeare is known to have
    done it

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