... lines 4, 5, and 8, while the sestet could take several forms (CDECDE and CDCDCD being the most popular). The English sonnet, in contrast, has a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD EFEFGG (the final two, rhyming lines are known as a heroic couplet, bee-tee-dubs). Now, we're telling you all this stuff about rhymes because Brooke's poem combines elements of both the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean sonnet ... . The octave is like an English sonnet, and its rhyme scheme is ABABCDCD. The sestet, however, takes the form of a Petrarchan sonnet and has a rhyme scheme of EFGEFG. So now for the ... ...

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... as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, it deals with different subjects such as: profound ... difference between these poets is in their use of form. Browning and Tennyson are writing in defined poetic forms: Browning uses the classic form of the heroic couplet (two lines of iambic pentamenter that rhyme together), ...

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