FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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24 lines
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14 lines
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at least 10 lines
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unlimited
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overview & History. A sonnet is a short lyric poem that consists of 14 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter (a 10-syllable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and following a specific rhyme scheme (of which there are several-we’ll go over this point more in just a moment).
Detailed explanation-2: -POETIC FORMS A sonnet is a formal poem with a fixed structure. It is 14 lines long and each line contains 10 syllables. Sonnet lines are in iambic pentameter which means the line has 10 syllables in 5 pairs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fourteen lines: All sonnets have 14 lines, which can be broken down into four sections called quatrains. A strict rhyme scheme: The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, for example, is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG (note the four distinct sections in the rhyme scheme).
Detailed explanation-4: -A quatorzain (from Italian quattordici or French quatorze, fourteen) is a poem of fourteen lines. Historically the term has often been used interchangeably with the term “sonnet".
Detailed explanation-5: –The Spenserian sonnet is a 14-line poem developed by Edmund Spenser in his Amoretti, that varies the English form by interlocking the three quatrains (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE).-The stretched sonnet is extended to 16 or more lines, such as those in George Meredith’s sequence Modern Love.