

Pattern has remained the most widely used in English and other languages. While relaxing the rhyme scheme of the octave to abbaacca. Poets-notably William Wordsworth-have employed this feature of the 'Miltonic sonnet' However, the 'turn' is delayed to a later position around the tenth line. In a variant form used by the English poet John Milton,

The transition from octave to sestet usually coincides with a 'turn' (Italian, volta) in Rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd. Most influential of the Italian sonneteers) comprises an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, (1) The Italian sonnet (also called the Petrarchan sonnet after the Schemes of the sonnet follow two basic patterns. Pentameters in English, alexandrines in French, hendecasyllables in Italian.

Sonnet: a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic
