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Wordsworth sonnet
William Wordsworth embraced the Miltonic sonnet, but changed the second quatrain rhyme scheme to compensate for fewer rhyming opportunities in the English language. Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet.
The defining features of the Wordsworth Sonnet are:
octet + quatrain + couplet.
Metered: iambic pentameter.
Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dede ff—as found in his sonnet: ‘London, 1802’. I used trailing rhyme in L6 & L7.
It is composed with the pivot or volta in the very last line.
Truth and morning become light with time. - An African proverb.

Epona, (from mythology, meaning Great Mare) painting by Susan Sheddon-Boulet