WorksheetsEdmund Spenser and the Spenserian Sonnet
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A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Shakespearean Sonnet
Italian Sonnet
English Sonnet
Spenserian Sonnet
A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
trochee pentameter
trochee tetrameter
A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.
trochee
dactyl
anapest
iamb
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.
Cadence
Meter
Iamb
All of the above
What is a quatrain?
A poem made up of 4 stanzas
A group of 4 authors working together
A stanza made up of 4 lines
A train made up of 4 cars
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.
Sestet
Iamb
Quatrain
Couplet
The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem.
Octave
Sestet
Couplet
Quatrain
The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.
quatrain
couplet
octave
sestet
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