Sonnets
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- Purpose of the sestet
- To answer the question or give a solution to a problem
- Number of lines in a couplet
- two
- Number of lines in a sestet
- six
- Most famous English sonnet writer
- Shakespeare
- Rhyme scheme of the sonnet
- iambic pentameter
- Divisions of the Italian sonnet
- one octave and one sestet
- Number of lines in an octave
- eight
- Purpose of the couplet
- To make a final comment on the problem or situation
- Two countries associated with sonnets
- England and Italy
- Contains 14 lines
- Sonnett
- Purpose of the octave
- To set up a problem or ask an extended question
- Divisions of the English Sonnet
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three quatrains and one couplet
- Number of lines in a quatrain
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four
- Most famous Italian sonnet writer.
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Petrarch
- Purpose of the quatrains
- To show three aspects of a problem or situation
- What is iambic pentameter?
- A line containing five sets of two syllables (10 total syllables) where the first of each set is unaccented while the second is accented...example: How do/ I love/ thee let/ me count/ the ways