Every Sonnet

Although the sonnet began in Italy in the 13th century, Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542, was one of the first English poets to translate and utilize...

The defining features of the Wordsworth Sonnet are: A quatorzain consisting of: octet  + quatrain + couplet  metered, iambic pentameter. ...

I am exceptionally glad to add this Sonnet form to my list. Insofar, as I know it is the only sonnet form to be created by one of the Stat...

Rhymes with "bonnet" and "sonnet". A variation of the English sonnet. It makes some use of near or half rhyme (the fi...

Tuckerman’s Sonnet – abbabcab adeced  or abbabcba bdeced Example Poem: Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Tuckerman Sonnet) A...