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Mind Map on SONNET, created by Karen Espinosa on 05/10/2014.
Karen Espinosa
Mind Map by Karen Espinosa, updated more than 1 year ago
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SONNET
  1. a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length
    1. The Italian sonnet
      1. comprises an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd
        1. The Italian pattern has remained the most widely used in English and other languages.
          1. Petrarchan sonnet
            1. 14th century
          2. The English sonnet
            1. Shakespearean sonnet
              1. comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg
                1. variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet
                  1. links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee
                  2. 16th century
                    1. Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591), Spenser's Amoretti (1595), and Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
                    2. Pentameter
                      1. A metrical verse line having five main stresses, traditionally described as a line of five 'feet.
                      2. Rhyme scheme
                        1. The pattern in which the rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem or stanza

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