Saraband Sonnet - French Style

tercet + quatrain + tercet + quatrain

Four stanzas

Volta at Line 8

Stanza 1 a tercet, rhyme axa or aaa

Stanza 2 a quatrain, any quatrain form or rhyme

The stanza forms may be mixed

 Note: My labels and template do NOT consider any form mixing.

• English: abab or abcb

• Italian: baab

• Spanish: bcbc

• French: bbcc

• Any metrical foot

• Any metrical line

• Some authorities insist on eight syllables but this is not cut and dried

Stanza 3 a tercet, same tercet form as stanza 1

a sonnet with a French tercet requires

line 2 of both tercets to rhyme.

Stanza 4 a quatrain, any quatrain form and rhyme

Rhyme scheme: depends on the form chosen.

The volta the first line of the second tercet. 

aaa bbcc aaa bbcc

aza bbcc aza bbcc  

I have used the "z" letter to indicate the lines must rhyme with each other, but may have any value, including "a thru c".

Example Poem:

I have no Example Poem yet, Please Feel Free to send me one.

Visual Template:  (Early on I found the spelling shown below, but have intentionally chose to opt for the more commonly found "Saraband".