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Which to type of stanzas are used in pertrarchan sonnet?

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The Petrarchan sonnet divides the 14 lines into two sections which are an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

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