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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Sonnet poems

I enjoy reading poetry and just recently I have been reading some English poetry and was interested about the various forms of English poems. I came upon the Sonnet poems, which I think the great Shakespeare used in his own plays, but I could never comprehend the octaves and sestet nor the sequel arrangements of a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a.

Would any one be so kind as to help me understand what do those letters and their arrangements mean? The a and b.

Thanks in advance
  

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When you use a-b to talk about poetry, you are talking about which words rhyme with each other. If you have a-a-b-b, the last words of each line of the poem may be ".... see/....

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  • When you use a-b to talk about poetry, you are talking about which words rhyme with each other.
  • If you have a-a-b-b, the last words of each line of the poem may be "....
  • see/....
  • above.
  • If you hvae a-b-b-a, then the middle two lines will rhyme with each other, and the first and last lines will rhyme with each other: blah blah blah tree blah blah blah love blah blah blah above blah blah blah me
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When you use a-b to talk about poetry, you are talking about which words rhyme with each other.

If you have a-a-b-b, the last words of each line of the poem may be ".... see/.... tree/...love/...above.

If you hvae a-b-b-a, then the middle two lines will rhyme with each other, and the first and last lines will rhyme with each other:
blah blah blah tree
blah bla
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