![]() 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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