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Title: Origin of sonnet form
Description: Origin of sonnet form

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The Sonnet is a type of poem finding its origin in Italy
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The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
consists of two parts, an octave and a sestet
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The octave presents an idea to be contrasted
by the ending sestet
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Petrarch typically used an abba abba pattern for the octave, followed by either
cde cde or cdc cdc rhymes in the sestet
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The repeated rhyme scheme within the Octave strengthens
the idea
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Shakespeare utilised the sonnet in love poetry of his own, employing the sonnet
structure conventionalized by English poets Wyatt and Surrey
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The rhyme scheme is a simple abab cdcd efef gg format
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Title: Origin of sonnet form
Description: Origin of sonnet form