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What type of sonnet is Petrarchan? | Italian |
What type of sonnet is Spenserian? | English |
What type of sonnet is Shakespearean? | English |
Who is named for the Petrarchan sonnet? | Franis Petrarch |
Who developed the Spenserian sonnet? | Edmund Spenser |
Who developed the Shakespearean sonnet? | William Shakespeare |
What is the meter for the Petrarchan sonnet? | iambic pentameter |
What does iambic mean? | 1 foot |
What does pentameter mean? | 5 beats per line |
What is the meter for the Spenserian sonnet? | iambic pentameter |
What is the meter for the Shakespearean sonnet? | iambic pentameter |
What is the rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet? | abbaabba---cdecde |
What is the rhyme scheme for Spenserian sonnet? | abab-bcbc-cdcd-ee |
What is the rhyme scheme for the Shakespearean sonnet? | abab-cdcd-efef-gg |
What is the structure for the Petrarchan sonnet? | octave and sestet |
What is an octave? | first 8 lines in the Petrarchan |
What is the sestet? | last 6 lines in the Petrarchan |
What is the structure for the Spenserian and Shakespearean sonnets? | 3 quatrain and 1 couplet |