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A form of poetical composition invented in the 13th century, consisting of 14 decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic iambic lines, rhymed according to two well-established schemes which bear the names of their two most famous exponents, Shakespeare and Petrarch. The Shakespearian sonnet consists of three four-lined stanzas of alternate rhymes clinched by a concluding couplet; the Petrarchan of two parts, an octave, the first eight lines rhymed abbaabba, and a sestet, the concluding six lines arranged variously on a three-rhyme scheme.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sonnet'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sonnet.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sonnet'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sonnet.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
