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Spenserian Sonnet Shakespearean Pioneered English Poet 16th Century

Question Spenserian
Answer Pioneered by the English poet from the 16th century, Edmund Spenser, the Spenserian sonnet copies the structure from Shakespeare, yet uses the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. 
a kind of merge of the Shakespearean sonnet and Petrachan sonnet, as it employs the couplet form throughout but retains the Shakespearean structure.

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