Sonnet XXIX | Style
The Sonnet Form and Sonnet Sequences
The word “sonnet” comes from the Italian sonnetto, a word that means “little sound.” The first master sonneteer was Petrarch, who gave his name to the Petrarchan (also called Italian) sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines in which a situation or problem is presented in the opening eight lines (the octave) and then resolved or complicated in the remaining six (the sestet). The rhyme scheme of the octave is abba, abba; that of the sestet is cde, cde or (in the case of “Sonnet XXIX”) cdc, dcd. The meter is iambic...
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