# sonnet, sonnet, 1 2 \_3\_?

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**Created:** [September 24, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonnet-sonnet-1-2-_3_/34351 "2000-09-24T07:02:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonnet-sonnet-1-2-_3_/34351/1 "2000-09-24T07:02:12Z")

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hey all,

i know the petrarchan sonnet (abbaabbacdecde, with lots of variations on the last six lines) and the shakespearian sonnet (ababcdcdefefgg), but i dont know the third kind of sonnet. my poetry teacher just mentioned it in passing, saying that it was really hard. of course, to my ears, ‘really hard’ sounds like ‘beyond your abilities,’ and i cannot let a challenge like that go by. anybody out there know how the rhyme pattern goes?

thanking you in advance,  
i remain,  
moistly yours,  
sneeZe

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**Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonnet-sonnet-1-2-_3_/34351/2 "2000-09-24T07:41:30Z")

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By no means am I knowledgable about these things but I’ve come up with this.

The Spenserian sonnet, after Edmund Spenser (rhyming abab bcbc cdcd ee)

From [here](http://www.bartleby.com/65/so/sonnet.html).

Don’t know if this is what you’re looking for but maybe somebody who knows about this subject will be along to fill you in.