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	Poetry Form - The Sonnet.
		The Spenserian Sonnet concludes with a rhymed couplet.
		Crown of Sonnets: A sequence of 7 to 14 Sonnets.
		Terza Rima Sonnet: A sonnet in terza rima (aba bcb cdc ded ee).
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	Sonnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His sonnets and those of his contemporary the Earl of Surrey were chiefly translations from the Italian of Petrarch and the French of Ronsard and others.
		In the 17th century, the sonnet was adapted to other purposes, with John Donne and George Herbert writing religious sonnets, and John Milton using the sonnet as a general meditative poem.
		Sonnets were written throughout the 19th century, but, apart from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and the sonnets of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, there were few very successful traditional sonnets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonnet (1334 words)

	What is a sonnet ? lyric?
		The sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem in predominantly iambic pentameter, with a formal rhyme scheme.
		The Italian sonnet form is commony called the Petrarchan sonnet, because Petrarch's "Canzonieri," a sequence of poems including 317 sonnets, established the sonnet as a major form in European poetry.
		The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas), rhyming abab cdcd efef, and a couplet (a two-line stanza), rhyming gg.
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	About the Sonnet
		Originating in Italy, the sonnet was established by Petrarch in the 14th century as a major form of love poetry, and came to be adopted in Spain, France and England in the 16th century, and in Germany in the 17th.
		The standard subject-matter of early sonnets was the torments of sexual love (usually within a courtly love convention), but in the 17th century John Donne extended the sonnet's scope to religion, while Millton extended it to politics.
		Although largely neglected in the 18th century, the sonnet was revived in the 19th by Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire, and is still widely used.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/sonnet.htm (874 words)

	Sonnet Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most sonnets are in iambic pentameter, though Shakespeare's Sonnet 145 and a few sonnets by Thomas Hardy are in tetrameter (four iambs per line), and some of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnets (see Loving in truth...") use hexameter (six iambs).
		Because this is a page of English language sonnets and because most of the Wyatt and Surrey sonnets here are translations of Petrarch, I have not included any of Petrarch's poems separately, but you will find several of his Italian sonnets with English translations alongside at the University of California.
		Sonnet with the interlocking rhyme scheme used by Edmund Spenser as follows: abab,bcbc,cdcd,ee.
	www.sonnets.org /glossary.htm (384 words)

	Sonnets are meant to be read aloud
		Gradually the Italian sonnet pattern was changed and since Shakespeare attained fame for the greatest poems of this modified type his name has often been given to the English form.
		So it combines the five rhymes of the Petrarchan sonnet with the 3 quatrain and couplet structure of the Elizabethan sonnet; it’s a hybrid form, and fiercely difficult to write.
		In addition, many Shakespearean sonnets seem to have a turn at line nine and another at the final couplet; and if a couplet closes an Italian sonnet, it is usually because the poet wanted the epigrammatic effect more characteristic of the Shakespearean form.
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	Guide to Verse Forms - Sonnet
		The Spenserian sonnet (after Edmund Spenser, he of the Faerie Queene) is often claimed to be a compromise between Italian and English sonnet forms; it rhymes ababbcbc/cdcdee.
		In a corona of sonnets, the last line of each sonnet is the same as the first line of the next (and the last line of the last sonnet is the same as the first line of the first, to complete the loop).
		There are numerous variations on the sonnet form, and other 14-line forms which are not, strictly speaking, sonnets at all.
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: sonnet @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SONNET [sonnet] poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.
		There are two prominent types: the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet, composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde), and the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean, sonnet, consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg).
		Around the time of Milton's great sonnets, the use of the form began to decrease, but with the advent of romanticism in the early 19th cent.
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	Sonnet
		Though the sonnet is a form that can be experimented with, it has remained true to its original length of fourteen lines and its Anglicized meter of iambic pentameter.
		The sonnet can be thematically divided into two sections: the first presents the theme, raises an issue or doubt, and the second part answers the question, resolves the problem, or drives home the poem's point.
		Spenserian- this sonnet is very similar to the Shakespearian sonnet in form, though its rhyme scheme is slightly different.
	www.uni.edu /~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/sonnet.html (788 words)

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		Sonnets were historically adaptable to a wide range of subjects like love, politics, and religion--for instance, John Donne's Holy Sonnets.
		Yeats' sonnet opens violently with the use of a colon which is a caesura or pause.
		The content is inconsistent with the idyllic subject common in sonnets and thus Yeats perhaps creates an oxymoron between form and content.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/sonnet.htm (707 words)

	Sonnet Information
		The sonnet became so firmly associated with Petrarch that the Italian sonnet came to be known as the "Petrarchan" sonnet.
		The various sonnet forms differ according to how many syllables are in each line and the pattern of stresses (the meter), how many lines are grouped into a cohesive unit, and what rhyme scheme is followed throughout.
		The rhetorical units of a Shakespearean sonnet generally correspond to the quatrain and couplet divisions marked by the rhyme scheme.
	www.lima.ohio-state.edu /people/dburks/201sonnet.htm (982 words)

	Sonnet (Spenserian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A sonnet is a fourteen line poem that has a pivot.
		The Spenserian sonnet is arranged as three quatrains and a couplet using rhyme to help interlink.
		There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that usually occurs in the sonnet at the ninth line.
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	The Academy of American Poets - Poetic Form: Sonnet
		Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization.
		The Spenserian sonnet, invented by sixteenth century English poet Edmund Spenser, cribs its structure from the Shakespearean--three quatrains and a couplet--but employs a series of "couplet links" between quatrains, as revealed in the rhyme scheme: abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
		The sonnet redoublé is formed of 15 sonnets, the first 14 forming a perfect corona, followed by the final sonnet, which is comprised of the 14 linking lines in order.
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	Learn more about Sonnet in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rules of the Italian sonnet were established by Guittone d'Arezzo (1235-1294), who wrote almost 300 sonnets.
		The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
		With the advent of free verse, the sonnet came to be seen as somewhat old-fashioned and fell out of use for a time.
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	The Sonnet Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, the sonnet can serve other purposes and indeed Shakespeare himself used the Sonnet form not only to woo and win his lover, but also to act as a mentor to a young lad and offer advice to him about life and also in wooing a lady.
		At the time of the emergence of the Sonnet in Italy the Christians were beginning to reclaim lands from the dominance of the Moors.
		Many people will argue that the only true sonnet is in Iambic Pentameter an English poetry form and yet the very origins of the sonnet was an established Italian romance form which the English adapted during a period when the English language itself was not formalised.
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		English (Shakespearean) sonnet - The 14 lines are grouped into 3 quatrains (quatrain = four-line unit) followed by one couplet (two lines).
		The sonnet’s main idea develops through each of the three four-line units, each one contributing a piece of the argument (or clarifying the previous piece).
		Spenserian sonnet - like the Shakespearean sonnet, Spenser’s sonnets generally observe the 3-quatrain-plus-couplet model.
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		The Shakespearean or English sonnet was actually developed in the sixteenth century by the Earl of Surrey, but is named after Shakespeare because of his great sonnet sequence (a series of sonnets all exploring the same theme) printed in 1609.
		The Spenserian sonnet is a variation of the English sonnet with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, in which the quatrains are linked by a continuation of one end-rhyme from the previous quatrain.
		Many of Shakespeare's sonnets are also about Love, but Shakespeare mocked the standard worshipful attitude of the Petrarchan sonnet in his famous "My Mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun." Development of the English sonnet led to consideration of other topics, including mortality, mutability, politics, and writing itself.
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	Poetry Life and Times, Vallance Review No. 44, April 2005
		According to Nelson Miller of The Sonnet Board, the “Spenserian Sonnet” was an offshoot of the stanza paradigm he had adopted for The Faerie Queene, viz; (a b a b b c b c c).
		This permits the poet to submerge his rhymes within a sentence, so that when someone recites the sonnet aloud (as indeed any truly harmonious sonnet should be read!), he or she is able to read it with the natural flow of spoken English, which tends to be more or less iambic in its rhythms.
		While Milton’s sonnets are not composed in blank verse, but are naturally all rhymed, still he was one of the earliest sonneteers to take advantage of the fluency induced by frequent enjambement, and was very skillful at submerging his rhymes in the continuing flow of his sonnet texts.
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	PETRARCHIAN SONNET HOW-TO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a Spenserian sonnet, the rhyme scheme used is ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, and there does not appear to be a requirement that the initial octet sets up a problem which the closing sestet answers.
		Some English sonnets… develop through a series of three examples in three quatrains with a conclusion in the couplet." So the content of an English Sonnet is not coupled as closely to the form as it is in the Italian Sonnet.
		One of the interesting elements of Shakespeare's sonnets is the "enjambment" of "phrases" with "sonnet lines." This is done frequently in Shakespeare's plays (which use a great deal of non-rhymed iambic pentameter, a form known as "blank verse"); less frequently in the sonnets.
	www.ans.edu.ni /Academics/Lupton_Rebecca/sonnet.htm (786 words)

	sonnet
		Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications, but to all essential purposes two types only need be discussed ff the student will understand that each of these two, in turn, has undergone various modifications by experimenters.
		The English (Shakespearean) sonnet, on the other hand, 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.
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		Like the Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian sonnets contain three quatrains and a concluding couplet, but the quatrains are linked by their rhymes, so the only definite break in the rhyme comes just before the couplet.
		If the content of a Spenserian sonnet includes contrary arguments or ideas, then the conflict of those ideas contrasts with the smooth development of the rhyme, and a poet can exploit this contrast to make some subtle comments on either the form or content or both.
		Compare sonnets with the same rhyme-pattern but by different poets to see what differences you can see between them, or just 2 different sonnets by the same poet to see how he can vary his effects.
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	sonnet on Encyclopedia.com
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		Teacher Marybeth Shaddy discusses sonnets during an honors English class at Holy Names Academy, in Seattle, Washington.
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	The Sonnet
		The sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines, written in rhymed iambic pentameter, and focused on a single theme.
		The Italian sonnet is a form that originated in Italy in the thirteenth century.
		The inventor of the sonnet was Giacomo da Lentino, who in the mid-13th century adapted a folk song known as the strambotto.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Petrarchan sonnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Petrarchan sonnet, also called the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet.
		The sonnet has a volta between the octave and the sestet.
		It was named for Petrarch, the Italian poet, and was later adapted into the Shakespearean sonnet in England.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Italian_sonnet (152 words)

	ENGL 3543
		The different types of sonnets are set apart by the rhyme scheme.
		Spenserian sonnet form, created by Edmund Spenser in the 1590s for Amoretti and used by few other poets, is a variation on the Shakespearean sonnet.
		Formal (relating to form): An experimental exercise in the form of the sonnet, using a fictional relationship (Sidney Lee).
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	Elizabethan Sonneteers
		Soldier, courtier, poet, and dramatist, George Gascoigne (1525-1577) wrote one of the first English sonnet sequences as well as the first essay on the writing of poetry.
		Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) also wrote a sonnet sequence, Amoretti (1595), in an interlocking rhyme form now known as the Spenserian sonnet.
		Written in the 1590s but not published until 1609, the 154 sonnets are his most personal work, tempting generation upon generation to speculate upon the identities of the young man and "Dark Lady" to whom they are addressed.
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	SchoolNotes.com - Notes Page
		A sonnet is usually addressed to a lover, but it may also be addressed to someone else, like God.
		This sonnet is named after an Italian man, Petrarch, who was a master of this type of sonnet.
		The Spenserian sonnet is the hardest to write because of its limited rhyme.
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	Shakespearean sonnet - Wiktionary
		This type of sonnet is strongly associated with Shakespeare's authorship.
		A sonnet comprising of three quatrains and a final couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
		Also known as Elizabethan sonnet and English sonnet.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Shakespearean_sonnet (57 words)

	ipedia.com: Sonnet Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rules of the Italian sonnet were established by Guittone d'Arezzo (1235–1294), who wrote almost 300 sonnets.
		The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
		This is a rough equivalent to the hendecasyllable usually used for Petrarchan sonnets in romance languages such as Italian, French and Spanish.
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