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    This document defines and provides examples of three types of sonnets: Petrarchan, Shakespearean, and Spenserian. It explains that Petrarchan sonnets have an octave rhyme scheme of abba abba and a sestet of cd cd or cde cde. Shakespearean sonnets have three quatrains of abab cded efef followed by a rhyming couplet. Spenserian sonnets also have three quatrains but with a rhyme scheme of abab bebe cdcd ee. Examples of each type are then provided.

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    Sonnet:

    A lyric poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. It is of


    three types: Petrarchan (also known as ltalian),
    Shakespearean (also known as English) and Spenserian.
    The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet are called
    octave and the last six lines of it are called sestet. The
    rhyme scheme of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet is
    abba abba and that of sestet is cd ca cd or cde cde.
    Milton, Wordsworth, Wyatt, Rossetti and a few other
    English poets have used Petrarchan form in their sonnets.
    Here is an example:
    • The world is too much with us; late and soon,. a
    • Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; b
    • Little we see in Nature that is ours; b
    • We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! a Octave
    • This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, a
    • The winds that will be howling at all hours, b
    • And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, b
    • For this, for everything, we are out of tune; a
    • It moves us not. Great God! l'd rather be c
    • A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; d
    • So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, c
    • Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; d Sestet
    • Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; c
    • Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. d
    • (Wordsworth: "The World Is Too Much with Us")
    • One more example for the variation in the sestet:
    • When I consider how my light is spent a
    • Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, b
    • And that one talent which.is death to hide b
    • Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent a Octave
    • To serve therewith my Marker, and present a
    • My true account, lest he returning chide; b
    • "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" b
    • I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent a
    • That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need c
    • Either man's work or his own gitts; who best d
    • Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state e Sestet
    A Shakespearean sonnet is divided into three
    quatrains followed by a couplet. lts rhyme scheme is
    abab cded efef gg. The concluding couplet is often
    used as a comment on the preceding lines. Here is an
    example:
    • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a
    • Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b
    • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a
    • And summer's lease hath all too short a date: b
    • Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, c
    • And often is his gold complexion dimmed; d
    • And every fair from fair sometimes declines, c
    • By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed; d
    • But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e
    • Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; f
    • Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade. e
    • When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: f
    • So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see g
    • So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g
    (Shakespeare: " Sonnet XVIll)
    • The Spenserian sonnet is named ater
    Edmund Spenser who developed a different
    rhyme scheme for his sonnets. Like a
    Shakespearean sonnet, it consists of three
    quatrains followed by a couplet but its
    rhyme scheme differs from that of
    Shakespearean. Its rhyme scheme is abab
    bebe cdcd ee. For example:
    • Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace, a
    • Seeing the game from him escapt away, b
    • Sits downe to rest him in some shady place, a
    • With panting hounds beguiled of their pray: b
    • So after long pursuit and vaine assay, b
    • When I all weary had the chace forsooke, c
    • The gentle deare return'd the selfe-same way, b
    • Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brooke, c
    • There she beholding me with mylder looke, c
    • Sought not to fly, but fearelesse still did bide: d
    • Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke, c
    • And with her owne goodwill hir fyrmely tyde. d
    • Strange thing me seem'd to see a beast so- wyld, e
    • So goodly wonne with her owne will beguyl’d. e
    • (Spenser: Amoretti, Sonnet

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