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It's an Italian sonnet in straightforward iambic pentameter, but the sestet doesn't introduce any variant on the CD or CDE rhyme; instead, the sestet simply continues the octave's ABBA rhyme scheme, so that the final lines AB seem to interrupt the poem's forward progress.
An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak" 2009
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It's an Italian sonnet in straightforward iambic pentameter, but the sestet doesn't introduce any variant on the CD or CDE rhyme; instead, the sestet simply continues the octave's ABBA rhyme scheme, so that the final lines AB seem to interrupt the poem's forward progress.
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