French Sonnet
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Isosyllabic, Simple, Pivot Requirement | | |
| Description: | | A variant of the Petrarchan sonnet, the French sonnet has a
different rhyme scheme in the sestet. The volta (pivot) falls between the octave and sestet. The meter should be a heroic line, like the alexandrine or
iambic pentameter. | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme: Octet = abbaabba
Sestet = ccdede or ccdccd or ccdeed
Pivot: Between 8 and 9 | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 14 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 14 | | |
| See Also: | | Alternating Sonnet, Petrarchan Sonnet, Sonnet | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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