Italian sonnet

NOUN
  1. a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
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How To Use Italian sonnet In A Sentence

  • This innovative sonnet sections itself into two quatrains and a sestet, making it a gentle melding of the English and Italian sonnets. Great Regulars: She then hears a voice as she attempts
  • In ‘Tea,’ a fine Italian sonnet, she finishes the octave with ‘we learn nothing of ours is ours to keep.’
  • May I suggest, that in honouring the promise you made your wife, the sonnet form you choose is the Italian Sonnet form, which is Petrarchan; so obviously will be in iambic pentameter, but the most comfortable and (in my opinion) elegant form: abbacddceffegg. Roses and poems « Write Anything
  • May I suggest, that in honouring the promise you made your wife, the sonnet form you choose is the Italian Sonnet form, which is Petrarchan; so obviously will be in iambic pentameter, but the most comfortable and (in my opinion) elegant form: abbacddceffegg. Roses and poems « Write Anything
  • Most people only know the sestet and leave out part of that, and thus fail to recognize this as an Italian Sonnet. The New Colossus | ATTACKERMAN
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