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Dear readers, the sonnets in this book are a mix of the three types of sonnets in the English language: Petrarchan, Spenserian, Shakespearean. I have also included some French sonnets which have 14 lines with 12 syllables per line which is quite different from the English sonnet made up of 10-syllable lines.
A Spenserian sonnet has got 14 lines of 3 quatrains + 1 couplet. The rhyming pattern is 1st ABAB, 2nd BCBC, 3rd CDCD, and last 2 lines: EE, whereas the Shakespearean sonnet has got ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
The Petrarchan sonnet has 14 lines divided into 2 parts: an octet: 8 lines with an AB AB AB AB rhyming pattern and a sestet: 6 lines with a rhyming pattern of CDE CDE. The octet tells about a problem and the sestet solves it.
In the French sonnet, there is a break after each 6th syllable per verse. The form is like the Petrachan sonnet and the sestet changes its rhyming pattern. The French sonneteer writes about a problem and finds a solution in the last six lines; The last line of the poem is a ‘chute’ a fall which every reader will feel after being engrossed in a particular atmosphere and to be suddenly awakened into another reality.
