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  2. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    He published Čtyři knihy sonetů (The Four Books of Sonnets). In the 20th century Vítězslav Nezval wrote the cycle 100 sonetů zachránkyni věčného studenta Roberta Davida (One Hundred Sonnets for the Woman who Rescued Perpetual Student Robert David). After the Second World War the sonnet was the favourite form of Oldřich Vyhlídal.

  3. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    [a] The structure lies in the beginnings and endings of the sequences, and in their overall thematic advancements. The beginnings of the sequences usually contain sonnets that “introduce characters, plot, and themes”. [3] The commencing sonnets suggest an account of the birth of a love “experience” [4] and hopefully foresee a happy ...

  4. Petrarchan sonnet - Wikipedia

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    Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled in that language than in English. The original Italian sonnet form consists of a total of fourteen hendecasyllabic lines in two parts, the first part being an octave and the second being a sestet.

  5. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    Spenserian sonnet: ABAB BCBC CDCD EE; Spenserian stanza: ABABBCBCC, where the last line is an alexandrine line; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening form: AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD, a modified Ruba'i stanza used by Robert Frost for the eponymous poem; Tail rhyme: B lines appear intermittently; Tanaga: traditional Tagalog tanaga is AABB

  6. Octave (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet. In traditional Italian sonnets the octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea, giving way to another idea in the sestet. Some English sonnets break that rule, often to striking effect.

  7. Reuben Bright - Wikipedia

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    "Reuben Bright" is a sonnet with decasyllabic lines of iambic pentameter. [2] Its structure is that of the Petrarchan sonnet according to Stephen Regan; [1] its rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDCD EE. In other words, the octet has two quatrains of enclosed rhyme, and the sestet has a quatrain of alternating rhyme and a concluding couplet.

  8. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The first 126 are addressed to a young man; the last 28 are either addressed to, or refer to, a woman. (Sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim.) The title of the quarto, Shake-speare's Sonnets, is consistent with the entry in the Stationers' Register. The title appears in upper case ...

  9. Curtal sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems.. It is an eleven-line (or, more accurately, ten-and-a-half-line) sonnet, but rather than the first eleven lines of a standard sonnet it has precisely the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet in which each component is three-quarters of its original length. [1]