Alternating Sonnet

Type: structure, metrical, rhyme scheme, isosyllabic, simple, pivot.

Description: Tercets alternating with quatrains

Schema:
Rhyme: abba,ccd,abba, ede
or ccd,abba,ede,abba
or similar parsing of other sonnet rhyme schemes.


Metric: iambic pentameter

Pivot: Line 8, 11, or 12

Stanza Length: tercet and quatrain.

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