Write a sonnet. Subject matter is up to you. It can be "sugared" and romantic in subject matter, or you might take your cue from contemporary versions we looked at in your reading packet. Minimal requirements include:
- 14 lines
- mainly iambic pentameter (u /)
- a rhyme scheme and sections (octet and sestet or 3 quatrains and a couplet) that is suggestive of the rhyme and section requirements of one these specific types of sonnet:
- Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet
- Shakespearian/English Sonnet
- Spenserian Sonnet
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