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Guardian: Poem of the week: Brittle Beauty by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
[The Guardian] - To put it briefly and simplistically, there's an ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG structure, the one which Shakespeare developed so expressively, and there's the Italian, Petrarchan, original, with its octet rhyming ABBAABBA and its sestet usually rhyming CDECDE.
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