Dante's Variation
Most Sonnets in Dante's La Vita Nuova are Petrarchan, but some are not. 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).
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