Spenserian Sonnet -invented by Edmund Spenser in the TheFaerie Queene with the rhyming pattern: a b a b b c b c c d c d e e -the first three quatrains overlap in rhyme and develop a main idea, while the rhyming couplet at the end gives a different message (final comment) -line 9 often begins with But or Yet where the Petrarchan and Shakespearian sonnets would normally have the twist or volta , but there is no change in idea here (Spenser has more of a 12 than 2 line pattern) -Spencer's Volta appears at line 13 then
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