a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

a lyric poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter wit 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. The 3 quatrains present a problem and the couplet presents a solution

a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee

Variation on the Italian Sonnet, in which the rhyme scheme is kept but the “turn” between the octave and the sestet is eliminated.

a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

also referred to as the turn, is the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem. The term is most frequently used in discussion of sonnet form, in which the volta marks a shift in thought (often from question to answer or problem to solution).

a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse

eight lines

a rhythmic group of six lines of verse

A standard fourteen-line sonnet is augmented by the addition of other lines, including “tails”.

a series of related sonnets with the same subject

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s name for a sonnet that has been curtailed, or shortened, to parts consisting of six lines and four and a half lines.

Seven sonnets interlinked by having the last line of the first form the first line of the second, the last line of the second from the first line of the third, and so forth, with the last line of the last sonnet repeating the first line of the first.

An English Sonnet in which the three quatrains are linked by repeating the second rhyme of one quatrain as the first rhyme of the succeeding quatrain.