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Sonnets?

Dooom · 2003-12-01 18:00:29

right, can somone give me a bit of help here please? there's 2 types of sonnet - a shakespearean one and some other italian guys one. can somene please give me the lettery thing for the italian one? it goes something like a b b a ...and something something else.... thanks

01-12-2003 6:00pm

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Dooom

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right, can somone give me a bit of help here please? there's 2 types of sonnet - a shakespearean one and some other italian guys one. can somene please give me the lettery thing for the italian one? it goes something like a b b a ...and something something else....
thanks

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#2 02-12-2003 7:34pm

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Petrarchan sonnet you mean?
goes like so...

Octave
Sestet

The octave rhymes abbaabba

The sestet contains two or three more rhyming schemes,
i.e. cdcdee (as an example)

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