types of sonnets.

1. Types of Sonnets
•Petrachan Sonnets
•Shakespearean Sonnets
•Spenserian Sonnets
•Curtal Sonnets
•Mitlonic Sonnets
•Terza Rima Sonnets

2. The Petrachan Sonnets
•These sonnets are perfected by the Italian poet
Petrarchan.
•The poem is divided into 14 lines into two sections:
Octave of eight lines and a Sestet of six lines.
•It’s rhyming scheme is abbaabbba cdecde/cdccdc .

3. The Shakespearean Sonnets
• These sonnets are divided three quatrains and
a couplet.
• The rhyming scheme of these sonnets is abab
cdcd efef gg.
• Shakespearean’s Sonnets were not invented
by Shakespeare , it was actually introduced by
The Earl of Surrey in 1500s.

4. The Spenserian Sonnets
• Sir Edmund Spencer was the first poet who
modified the Petrarch’s form and introduced
a new rhyming sceme.
• The rhyming scheme is abab bcbc cdcd ee

5. The Curtal Sonnets
•It is known as curtailed or contracted sonnets.
•Curtal Sonnets are 11 lines sonnets.
•The rhyming scheme is abcabc dcbdc /abcabc
dbcdc.

6. The Mitlonic Sonnets
•John Milton created the
Miltonic sonnet as a variant to the then
highly popular Petrarchan sonnet.
•The rhyming scheme is abab cdcd efef gg

7. The Terza Rima Sonnets
• Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in
the late thirteenth century to structure his
three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy.
• It’s rhyming scheme is aba bcb cdc ded.