Spenserian+Sonnet

Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Simple, Pivot Requirement This sonnet is arranged as three quatrains and a couplet using rhyme to help interlink. There is a pivot, a change of meaning or direction, that usually occurs in the sonnet at the ninth line. It was developed by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser English 14 14
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The Spenserian Sonnet is divided into an eight line octave,rhyming abab bcbc cdcdee.

This example is taken from //Amoretti// //Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hand//Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands, Which hold my life in their dead doing might, Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands, Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.

And happy lines! on which, with starry light, Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look, And read the sorrows of my dying sprite, Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book.

And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook Of Helicon, whence she derived is, When ye behold that angel's blessed look, My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.

Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none.