Structure sorts literary forms by the fixed rules that define their shape. Wikipedia describes the sonnet's structure as "traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme," rules strict enough that a poem breaking them is no longer considered a sonnet at all. This dimension lets a visitor compare forms that share the same kind of formal constraint.
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Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era.
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