Imagination is the spark that drives creation and inspiration. It kick-started civilization, and nutures my muse. So here is a compilation of those thoughts.

I am embarking on an adventure of writing various Sonnet styles. I just completed a classic Shakspearean Sonnet. So now, I thought I'd introduce a variation spawned from the Imagination of the famous poet, Dante, who wrote The Inferno.

This poem is Dante's Variation of Sonnets.
The most common Italian Sonnets are written in the Petrarchan format of a 14 line set consisting of two quatrains with two closing tercets having the rhyme scheme: abba abba cdc cdc. Dante wrote a 20 line deviation to this style. Most Sonnets in Dante's La Vita Nuova are Petrarchan. Chapter VII gives sonnet "O voi che per la via", with two sestets (aabaab aabaab ) and two quatrains (cddc cddc), and Ch. VIII, "Morte villana", with two sestets (aabbba aabbba) and two quatrains (cddc cddc).
I've am recreating his variation using the aabbba form of Chapter VIII In iambic pentameter, (but lines 3,4.5, 14,15, 18, and 19 are intentionally feminine). I chose that because, I personally like 3 consecutive repeated lines. So this intrigued me when I read about it.

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