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The Sonnet - Coggle Diagram
The Sonnet
Themes
Unrequited love for a woman
Idealised image, often very beautiful but portrayed as cruel
Friendship
Beauty
Destructive effect of time
Expression of poetry invented in Italy
The most common during the Renaissance
Not very popular after 1600
Original
Fourteen lines of hendecasyllables
Two quatrains + two tercets
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
Elizabethan
Fourteen lines of iambic pentameters
Three quatrains + one rhyming couplet
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Dante (1265-1321)
Petrarch (1304-74)
Most famous Italian poets that used the sonnet
Thomas Wyatt
Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Most famous English poets that used the sonnet