Caudate sonnet Caudate sonnet A caudate sonnet is an expanded version of the sonnet. It consists of 14 lines in standard sonnet forms followed by a coda (Latin "cauda" meaning "tail", from which the name is derived). The invention of the form is credited to Francesco Berni. According to the "Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry," the form is most frequently used for satire, such as the most prominent English instance, John Milton's "On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament." Gerard Manley Hopkins used the form in a less satirical mood in his "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire." The poem
Sonnet 95 of the form, "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 11th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The 8th line has both an initial and a mid-line reversal: Initial reversals are also present in lines 6 and 10, and potentially in lines 2, 4, and 9. The meter demands line 6's "lascivious" to function as three syllables. Sonnet 95 Sonnet 95 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair