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Sonnet types discussed:

The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD

The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD

The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF

The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE

The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic content

The Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG

The Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GG

The Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GG

The Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EE

The Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EE

The Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)

The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)