Sonnet (I will be cutting up some papers to make sonnets later in a snow storm)

The sonnet came from Italy. It's name comes from sonnetto which means "little song." It's short -- just fourteen lines, and it's written in iambic pentameter, plus it has a rhyme scheme. There are three choices for rhyme schemes: Petrarchan: The fourteen lines are divided into an octet (eight line stanza) and sestet (six line stanza) rhymed a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a and c-d-e-c-d-e (the sestet is sometimes varied). Shakespearean: a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g (Yay! The easiest) Spenserian: a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c-d-c-d-e-e (The least common)