SERANAEAN SONNETS. These sonnets are not Italian, Occitan, Spenserian or Shakespearean sonnets.

These sonnets are called SERANAEAN, from the last name of the poet, David J Serana. These are the newest form of sonnets ever published.  Sonnets are classical poems made of fourteen lines with poetic metres and rhymes. If you are a sonneteer, or a sonnet lover; you could easily tell the differences among these sonnets. But for the new readers, the distinction of these new sonnets is more on the rhyme patterns.

          The Italian Sonnets have rhyme pattern of  a/b/b/a, a/b/b/a, c/d/e, c/d/e. It was promoted in 1235 by Giacomo da Lentini in Sicily, Italy.

      The Occitan Sonnets have rhyme pattern of a/b/a/b, a/b/a/b, c/d/c/d/c/d. It was promoted in 1284 by Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia in Florence, Italy.

          The Spenserian Sonnets have rhyme pattern of a/b/a/b, b/c/b/c, c/d/c/d, e/e. It was promoted by Edmund Spenser up to 1599 in London, England.

          The Shakespearean Sonnets, also called Elizabethan Sonnets, have rhyme pattern of a/b/a/b, c/d/c/d, e/f/e/f, g/g. It was promoted generally by William Shakespeare between up to 1616 in London, England.

These Seranaean Sonnets are intended to revive classicism in the 21st century. These are the simplest sonnets with rhyme pattern of a/a/b/b, c/c/d/d, e/e/f/f, g/g. It is promoted by David G Serana.