Question | Spenserian |
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Answer | Pioneered by the English poet from the 16th century, Edmund Spenser, the
Spenserian sonnet copies the structure from Shakespeare, yet uses the rhyme
scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. a kind of merge of the Shakespearean sonnet and Petrachan sonnet, as it
employs the couplet form throughout but retains the Shakespearean structure. |
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