Abstract

ABSTRACT This article considers the role of the couplet in the ‘English’ sonnet. It begins by reading the Earl of Surrey's connections of the couplet to the rest of the sonnet, and then turns to Shakespeare's sonnet 126 to think differently about how this couplet-heavy sonnet rethinks what that feature of ‘English’ sonnet form might do.

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