English Sonnet

Imported into the English language

Straight from the Italian Sonetto

Means ‘Little sound, little song’ on this page

With form from Petrarchan sonnet you grow

Your anatomy of first an octave

With rhymes A, B, B, A, A, B, B, A

Secondly, you have the sestat well carved

With C, D, E, C, D, E rhymes you play

But you’re Spenserian or Shakespearean

Four quatrains and a couplet you left

Poetic attire fourteen lines long

A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F

E, F the rhyme goes on ending G, Gs

Italian to English readers sees