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What are the difference between the three sonnet types; Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean/English

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Spenserian sonnets are composed of three quatrains (stanzas of four lines each) and one couplet (a stanza of two lines that rhyme).
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The difference is in their structure - both have fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, but they are organized in different ways.
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