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The sonnet originated in Italy as a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and structure. Francesco Petrarch developed the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet, which was introduced to English by Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard in the 16th century. The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an octave with an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme and a sestet with a CDCDCD or CDECDE rhyme scheme. William Shakespeare popularized the English or Shakespearean sonnet of three quatrains rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF followed by a rhyming couplet.

Author

Fahiem Chaucer

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EN