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An English sonnet is 14 lines, iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of:
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
An Italian sonnet is 14 lines, iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of:
ABBA ABBA CDECDE
The closest poem to being a sonnet that does not follow this pattern is Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro". It's 14 Words, broken with a semi-colon at the volta(after 8th Word).
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