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plop | 18:00 Wed 29th Sep 2004 | Arts & Literature
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what makes a poem a sonnet?
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sonnets have 14 lines and are wriiten in iambic pentamiter
18:08 Wed 29th Sep 2004
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a sonnet will contain 14 lines, usually with a rhyming pattern of A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D,E,F,E,F,G,G.
18:10 Wed 29th Sep 2004
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14 lines of iambic pentameter is right - however, the rhyme pattern determines what type of sonnet it is. Jenky has desribed an English (Shakespearean) sonnet, but there are other types, eg Italian, Spenserian etc, all explained here: http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
21:20 Wed 29th Sep 2004

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