An extreme example is this sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney, which delays the volta all the way to L 14: ... Still, the poem has the dialectical structure that a sonnet is supposed to have,

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Sonnets for Free by Nicholas Gordon ... I Do Not Want This Poem to Go Too Deep ... [poem of the week]

Here is an example of a Petrarchan sonnet. Read it through once, trying to get a feel for it style and rhythm. Then roll your mouse over the poem to get more details about the poem's structure.

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath Nor clean the blood, ... It well may be that in a difficult hour,

A lyric poem of fourteen lines, following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes. Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications, but to all essential purposes two types only...

Taking from this meaning, the sonnet is a modest 14-line lyrical poem, typically written in iambic pentameter with a defined rhyme scheme. ... An example showing just the last end-rhymed words would be:

“Arguably the worst of all the Shakespeare sonnets,” Sonnet 145 is the only one written in eight-syllable lines rather than the ten-syllable lines of the other 153 sonnets.

Red Blushed And All Cut Up; ... Escape From The Sad Heart ... Her Wilting Regrets

If it rhymes with b, mark it b. If it rhymes with neither, mark it c, and so on throughout the poem. For example, note the first four lines of Shakespeare s Sonnet XVIII.