Caudate Sonnet
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Pivot
Requirement | | |
| Description: | | This is also known as the Tailed or Caudated Sonnet. It
starts with the Petrarchan sonnet and adds a three-foot tail, then adds a Heroic Couplet, then another tail, then another heroic couplet. | | |
| Origin: | | Italian | | |
| Schematic: | | The rhyme scheme is:
abbaabba cdecde e(3)fff(3)gg | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 20 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 20 | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
| See Also: | | Petrarchan Sonnet, Sonnet | | |
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