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Where does the Volta occur in Shakespeare’s sonnet 30?

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The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 2 sections: The first 12 lines—which can be broken down further into quatrains—and the final 2 lines, which form a rhyming couplet. the shift between lines 12 & 13 is called the volta

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