![]() Why such? Because poetry was accompanied by music, and each part, front and coda, means a different melody, that is re-sung at each new stanza the difference in rhythm and in rhyme scheme accentuates this contrast between parts. ![]() These parts may contain a non-fixed number of lines, as long as the rhyme scheme differs between them, as well as the syntactical rhythm, double or triple: i.e., if the front consists of one quatrains, the coda must contain one triplet, each with a different rhyme scheme. A stanza is divided into two parts: a front and a coda. These rules are explained in Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia. ![]() There are many many variations of the sonnet it just happened that the rhymed 14 lines one was preferred over the others through time (which is a pity, right?) It is not the case with the blank sonnet, which has been practiced by many poets, including you, it seems.īut what, after all, defines a sonnet? What is its essence, if not having 14 lines with a certain rhyme scheme? In Provençal poetry, there was a genre of poetry named Son, which in Italy was called Canzone, and translates to "Song" it is a long poem made by many stanzas: these stanzas did not have a fixed form, but there were some rules. has many sonnets with 22 lines (called " Sonetto rinterzato"). What most people do not know is that a sonnet does not even need to necessarily have 14 lines. YES! There are many different kinds of sonnet.
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