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English sonnet

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English sonnet
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Noun1.English sonnet - a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme


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The sequence's content includes Carper as narrator both identifying with and separating himself from the Japanese poet, this duality being reflected structurally in the sequence's individual sections, each of which is a combination of Carper's hallmark English sonnet followed by a modified haiku.
As poet Camille Dungy, 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award-winner, said recently: "Blues is one of the tools I draw on--just like the English sonnet form is one of the tools I draw on:" And when black writers use traditional European forms, they often blue those hand-me-down instruments in order to tell their stories.
Roche, and Maren-Sofie Rostvig, that numerological schemes are at the basis of both the conception and execution of Renaissance English sonnet cycles.
 
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