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What Is a Sonnet?<br />

A <strong>sonnet</strong> is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in<br />

iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme<br />

schemes.<br />

•The two most common types of <strong>sonnet</strong>s are<br />

•Petrarchan, or Italian, <strong>sonnet</strong>s<br />

•Shakespearean, or English, <strong>sonnet</strong>s<br />

•A less common type of <strong>sonnet</strong> is the Spenserian<br />

<strong>sonnet</strong>.

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