SONNET - II. The Spenserian Sonnet: The Spenserian sonnet, invented by Edmund Spenser as an outgrowth of the stanza pattern he used in The Faerie Queene (a b a b b c b c c),
SONNET - BASIC SONNET FORMS - PETRARCHAN, SPENSERIAN, SHAKESPEAREAN Here is a good explanation of the three basic sonnet forms: Petrarchan (Italian), Spenserian, Shakespearean (English), as well as variant sonnet forms. Courtesy,
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