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Question
This poem is a Shakespearean sonnet.
Look at some other sonnets and notice the variations in the structure of the sonnet that are possible.
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Solution
Sonnets can vary in how their fourteen lines are grouped and rhymed. A Petrarchan sonnet has an eight-line octave followed by a six-line sestet; a Spenserian sonnet links its three quatrains through the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. Poets may also vary the metre or rhyme scheme.
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