It has evolved from Italian word "sonnetto", it means little song.
Sonnet is nothing but a small poem or little song.
But since it's introduction in english language, it's almost fixed of 14 lines.
The original form is the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, in which the 14 lines are arranged in an octet (8 lines) rhyming abba abba and a sestet (6 lines) rhyming either cdecde or cdcdcd. Later came the English or Shakespearean sonnet, made of three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef and a closing rhymed heroic couplet. The Spenserian sonnet is a variation developed by Edmund Spenser in which the quatrains are linked by their rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Sonnet is nothing but a small poem or little song.
But since it's introduction in english language, it's almost fixed of 14 lines.
The original form is the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, in which the 14 lines are arranged in an octet (8 lines) rhyming abba abba and a sestet (6 lines) rhyming either cdecde or cdcdcd. Later came the English or Shakespearean sonnet, made of three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef and a closing rhymed heroic couplet. The Spenserian sonnet is a variation developed by Edmund Spenser in which the quatrains are linked by their rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.
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