Terza Rima Sonnet

Type: Isosyllabic, meter, rhyme, repetition.

Description: Written in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme that line 2 of each stanza rhymes of lines 1 and 3 of the following stanza. In the closing couplet both lines rhyme with line 2 of the preceding tercet as well a repeat lines 1 and 3 of the first.

Schema: A(1)bA(2), bcb, cdc, dad, A(1)A(2)

Poem length: 14 lines

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