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What are Sonnets ?

9 Years Ago


For some members who didn't know what sonnets were or what they mean...
Sonnets are 14-line rhyming poems that can follow one of two rhyming patterns. Shakespearean sonnets always follow an alternating rhyme scheme, then end with a couplet: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. Petrarchan sonnets have somewhat more variance, but are generally some variation of a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-c-d-c-d.

Re: What are Sonnets ?

9 Years Ago


Villanelles are very complex poems forms that require you to repeat whole lines of the poem. Villanelles are written in three line stanzas, all of which must rhyme a-b-a. The catch is that the A lines must repeat as the final line of each subsequent stanza. These poems take some serious work.