FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Sestet
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Iamb
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Quatrain
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Couplet
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Detailed explanation-1: -A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fourth, and final part of the sonnet is two lines long and is called the couplet. The couplet is rhymed CC, meaning the last two lines rhyme with each other.
Detailed explanation-3: -The last two lines of a sonnet are called a couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare’s sonnets are composed of 14 lines, and most are divided into three quatrains and a final, concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. This sonnet form and rhyme scheme is known as the ‘English’ sonnet.
Detailed explanation-5: -The two major differences between Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets are the structure and rhyme scheme. Petrarchan sonnets, named after 13th Century Italian poet Petrarch, consist of fourteen lines grouped in two major sections: first, an “octave” of eight lines, followed by a “sestet” of six lines.