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Who created a rhyme scheme different from that uses in the English or Italian sonnets?

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in the day of shakespeare

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  1. Look up the term "Spenserian sonnet."


  2. You are probably thinking of Edmund Spenser.  

    The Spenserian sonnet is rhymed ababcbcbdcdcee.

    It is sometimes said to have a terza rima feel, but this is not really true when reading them in my opinion.  It feels more like terza rima when writing down the rhyme scheme.

    Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella, also varies the rhyme scheme of Petrarch's octave-sestet stanza quite a bit; although he is credited with starting the English sonnet craze, only after Shakespeare and Spenser are specific rhyme schemes named.  Spenser and Sidney are both a decade or so older than Shakespeare.

  3. ???? I think there is a category for this called, "Homework". : /

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