Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Simple, Pivot Requirement

A sonnet is a fourteen line poem that has a pivot. The Petrachan or Italian sonnet is broken into the octave and the sestet. There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that occurs in a sonnet at the beginning of the sestet.

Italian

The rhyme scheme is: abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd.

14

14

• A Glimpse of a Goddess
• Blossoming
• On First Seeing El Greco’s Painting “Lagrimas de San Pedro” (Scroll Down)
• The Comfortable Pew (Scroll Down)

Accentual-Syllabic Verse, Alternating Sonnet, Bowlesian Sonnet, Caudate Sonnet, Chained Sonnet, Crown of Sonnets, Envelope Sonnet, French Sonnet, Italian Octave, Italian Quatrain, Italian Sestet, Pushkin Sonnet, Sardine, Shakespearean Sonnet, Sonnet, Spenserian Sonnet, Stretched Sonnet

Incomplete