The three governing sonnet structures used across this atlas's works: the fourteen-line form itself and its two chief historical patterns, the Petrarchan octave-and-sestet and the Shakespearean three-quatrains-and-couplet. Belongs here: any fixed fourteen-line rhymed form built on one of these two rhyme schemes. Does not belong here: a longer stanzaic form that merely echoes sonnet diction, or a free-verse poem of fourteen lines with no fixed rhyme scheme.
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WikipediaSonnet, lead section, 13th-century Sicily origin sentenceQuote, Sonnet, lead section, 13th-century Sicily origin sentence
Originating in 13th-century Sicily, the sonnet was in time taken up in many European-language areas, mainly to express romantic love at first, although eventually any subject was considered acceptable.
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