Who created a rhyme scheme different from that used in the english or italian sonnets back in shakespeare days

Question

Who created a rhyme scheme different from that used in the english or italian sonnets back in shakespeare days

Answer 1

Sidney, in Astrophil and Stella, used various rhyme schemes, and sometimes used longer lines (sonnet 1 has six, and not five stresses per line):

http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/stella.htm...

Spenser also invented a new rhyme scheme for the sonnet:

a b a b b c b c c d c d e e

More information there:

http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm