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Sonnet
- a poem having 14 lines
- usually in iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line)
- certain arrangement of rhyme
- Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet has:
- first twelve lines are made up of three verses of four lines called quatrains
- the usual rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef
- the last two lines are a couplet
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
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