Sonnets
	Sonnet The most popular, enduring and widely used poetic form in English poetry; introduced in 1530's
		Structure: -14 lines -usually written in iambic pentameter (meter) ;iamb one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable pentameter 5 feet per line ;foot one set of whatever the unstressed/stressed pattern is *10 syllables per line - (unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed,unstressed, stressed) -variety of rhyme schemes -two main types (named after the country the form was used in and for an author who is well known for writing them) 1) English or Shakespearean 2) Italian or Petrarchan
			Italian: -two part division 1) Octave 8 lines(builds or expands on an idea) 2) Sestet 6 lines(responds to the idea or states a conclusion look for but or yet) -rhyme scheme for octave is usually quite rigid (most common: abbaabba) -rhyme scheme for sestet allows more freedom 1) quatrain and couplet (cdcd ee) Sir Philip Sidney 2) alternation of two rhymes (cdcdcd) John Keats 3) three rhymes (cdecde) John Milton
				*The people following the types of rhyme schemes are authors who are well know for using that particular rhyme scheme.