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Originally Posted by Tim McGrath
What about a rhyme royal? Two stanzas, 14 lines in iambics, rhymed couplet at the end. Technically not a sonnet, but what today is technically a sonnet?
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I'm sure this will be discussed
ad nauseam in the coming weeks...but a rhyme royal is not a sonnet for several reasons. One of which is because, frankly, it's a rhyme royal (in terms of rhyme scheme and structure etc.), and secondly because it doesn't typically have a volta.
Not all "fourteeners" are sonnets...but admittedly the discussion of what
is a sonnet has been done to death, and will inexorably continue for every bakeoff to come.