What is the rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet?
Please Login to ask or answer a question, or Register if you do not have a SearchWarp Account. Answers to this question: » Answer from Richard Vail Answer given 183 days 19 hours ago. Selected as Best Answer! the Spenserian Sonnet, a sonnet variation developed in the sixteenth century by English poet Edmund Spenser. While few poets have used this form, it serves as a bridge between the Italian sonnet and the form used by Shakespeare. In a Spenserian sonnet, the rhyme scheme used is ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, and there does not appear to be a requirement that the initial octet sets up a problem which the closing sestet answers. Instead, the form is treated as three quatrains (linked by the connected rhyme scheme described above) followed by a couplet. Again, iambic pentameter is used. • Report • Give High 5 • More questions answered by this person » Comment from Zeph Agayo Comment made 181 days 14 hours ago. Just the rhyme scheme will do.
