Academy of American Poets - Sonnet
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Glossary entry from the Academy of American Poets defining the sonnet's Petrarchan, Shakespearean and Spenserian forms, their rhyme schemes and the volta, and tracing the form from Petrarch through Wyatt and Milton to contemporary poets. Readers can identify each variant on sight.
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